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Setting aside the dubious background of the author, this is just typical of what you see when some well-meaning but naive **cough cough**Huckabee**cough* preacher tries to scale the personal salvation offered by Christ up to make it fit a society as a whole. I have seen this misguided thinking in Lutheran pastors up here in Great White Nord Akota and I’ve seen it in Pentecostal preachers from south of the Mason Dixon line.
In the Book of Job it says all we’re promised is “a few days and full of sorrows”. If anyone offers us anything better than that through the laws of men, we should beware. Life is what it is, and salvation/ a better life/ happiness are personal goals that you have to work out for yourself- if done with the help of Christ, so much the better- in this life and the next.
I think the attraction of this approach to some people is the perception that it alleviates them from having to think about life’s challenges and dilemnas. “If the government (or society, whatever) can handle it, I don’t have to” seems to be how that line of reasoning goes.

Tony Campolo, scumbag asswipe, is telling anyone anything about morals and Christianity?!?!? Give me a break! This clown makes James Jones look like Ghandi. What a communistic piece of crap. His Savior is Marx, his Jesus is Lenin, his Moses is Stalin.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Good ol Boy
I don’t think you will find many Pentecostals engaging in Campolo type social gospel.  Sojourners is anathema to us.  Lutherans, depending on the stripe are not going to go there either.  ELCA yes.  MO SYNOD not.

Huck is NOT a Sojourner.  He believes in dealing with social issues but hot to the degree Campolo does.

I know that seems a fine line.  It’s not.  Huck is a sharp cookie and you haven’t heard the last of him.

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I actually agree with you about Campolo.  He frustrates the heck out of me.  I’m a pretty earthy Christian and he gives ME a bad name.

I say all that because for some reason we are painted with a broad brush that covers all. It’s not true.  Just like all Conservatives are not the same, all Christians are not the same.

I try NOT to demonize the weird and off reservation.  There’s that sowing and reaping thingy I hate so much.

[b]Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this could be their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce. 
And they go down fighting.

But, says Campolo, they need to start paying attention to what the Bible teaches to do about poverty, the environment, global warming and social injustice. And, in response, we have to empower government through political activism to shoulder our biblical responsibilities.

1"Beware of(A) practicing your righteousness before other people in order(B) to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

2(C) “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may(D) be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have(E) received their reward. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret.(F) And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 6:1-4

The passage above would appear in red letters in the red letter editions of the Bible.

Right on, Samantha!