[Vision2020] Say What?

[keely emerinemix]

Gee, the Christian Right "gullible"?  Why, I'm stunned . . . I had no idea.

But, of course, the gullibility of the Christian Right is legendary and at times apparently limitless.  The "celebrity" conversion -- and I'm being generous here in attributing "celebrity" to the least articulate, least attractive, and least accomplished of the Four Baldwin Brothers -- is seen as some sort of ticket to the arena of cultural legitimacy, kind of like a feather in our collective cap, a cap we hope the other kids will find cool on Monday morning.  A predictable spiritual vacuum -- and examples of gross analytical vapidity like Baldwin's -- results from an expression of faith that seeks cultural legitimacy from those it ought to instead lovingly deliver from a debauched culture.  

When Christiandom exults in the endorsement of those who know little and practice less regarding the faith -- when the culturally-compromised Church treats  conversion as a stamp of approval from the converted instead of as an intimate, joyous, and comprehensive spiritual rebirth -- it invites the kind of unabashed dumbness that makes headlines.  Tragically, the Christian Right, in Hollywood or in the Beltway, stumbles all over itself to shove a microphone in the hands of celebs who say they're joined with Jesus, and intelligent people on the Right and on the Left, as well as apolitical evangelicals concerned with the witness of the Gospel, scratch their heads and wonder what kind of political movement would be so devoid of thoughtfulness that it would turn to Stephen Baldwin for analysis?  

I guess the only other question is, "What kind of electorate would be so devoid of thoughtfulness that it would reward that party with its vote?"  The answer is, to me, potentially chilling.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




From: jpool at moscow.com
To: kjajmix1 at msn.com; thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Say What?
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:07:52 -0800



















On the other hand, if one were cynical about these things, one
could well believe that his conversion was a matter of “talking the talk”
because in so doing he believed/believes that his power to influence the course
of history lies in that direction. Unless Baldwin has actually “walked
the walk,” I rather suspect his pastor would turn blue in the face before
convincing Baldwin that there was any error in his public pronouncements. Perhaps
Baldwin’s statement says more about the gullibility of the Christian
Right than it does about Baldwin’s faith.

 

John Pool

 





From:
vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On
Behalf Of keely emerinemix

Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 1:48 PM

To: Tom Hansen; vision2020 at moscow.com

Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?





 

I'm afraid that Stephen Baldwin, since his
conversion to Christianity, has not exemplified very well the mandate to love
the Lord Jesus with all of his mind.  In fact, if I were Stephen's pastor,
I would pull him off the public stage and spend a great deal of time purging
him of right-wing cultural "christiandom" and building in him instead
a deep, abiding, intelligent faith not easily tickled by shifting winds of
political doctrines -- particularly when the source of those doctrines come in
from very nasty storm clouds gathered on the Right.



Keely

www.keely-prevailingwinds.com









> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:42:20 -0800

> From: thansen at moscow.com

> To: vision2020 at moscow.com

> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?

> 

> "I am not happy about the way things are. I pray for President Obama
every

> single day. But tell you what. Homey made this bed, now he has got to lay

> in it."

> 

> - Stephen Baldwin at the CPAC Convention (February 19, 2010)

> 

> http://www.news.bkhmer.com/?p=18569

> 

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX2bF5X-3hs

> 

> ------------------------------------------------------------------

> 

> Seeya round town, Moscow.

> 

> Tom Hansen

> Moscow, Idaho

> 

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change

> and the Realist adjusts his sails."

> 

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