Russ T. Nale wrote:
What's a 'Red-Letter Christian'?
by Tony Campolo
Beliefnet 2-27-2006
Recently, I met with a group of religious leaders who have become
increasingly disturbed by the alliance between evangelical Christians and
the Republican Party. Karl Rove, President Bush=B9s political strategist,
has brilliantly and successfully served as the matchmaker to arrange this
union, which was consummated in the last presidential election when 83
percent of evangelicals voted Republican.
It is such a sad event that christians are involving themselves in
politics, the Christian apostle John writes:
"Do not be loving either the world or the things in the world. If
anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; because
everything in the world-the desire of the flesh and the desire of the
eyes and the showy display of one's means of life-does not
originate with the Father, but originates with the world. Furthermore,
the world is passing away and so is its desire, but he that does the
will of God remains forever."-1 John 2:15-17.
The very last book of the Bible, also written by this same apostle
John, describes how this world and its politics will pass away.
However, there are religious leaders, even popes, patriarchs and
archbishops, that argue against Christian neutrality and say that it is
the bounden duty of each and every Christian to take an active part in
the political affairs of this world.
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