by Sandy » Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:12 pm
The Christian church, including the conservative, Evangelical branch of it, not only exists, but thrives, in areas around the world where it is completely counter to the existing culture. I think all this rhetoric going on about "the sky is falling" and "taking back our country" is mostly political in nature, frustrated resentment over not having "their guy" in the White House, and not really being able, any more, to get government to do their bidding. Couple that with this premillennial, dispensational idea that God has some kind of covenant relationship with the USA based on our level of morality and righteousness, and that somehow we are reaching the tipping point because of what our government does, and some kind of collective, national judgment is coming particularly because of the specific "sins" we have committed that the church's culture war has been aimed at, and you have this "woe is us" mentality of a persecuted church, and a negative attitude about everything. Sorry, I don't buy that at all.