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Expelled (No Intelligence Allowed) - Documentary
In Expelled (No Intelligence), Biologist PZ Myers proclaims:
"If you separate the ethics from religion, you are simply left with fairy tales. Religion is an idea that gives some people comfort, like knitting. We're not going to take away their knitting needles or their churches. However, religion should be treated as something fun that people get together and do on the weekend and really doesn't affect their life."
OK, I may not have quoted exactly, but it is pretty close. See the interview at the 1:00:00 mark.
As I listened to this, I began to ponder, have we adopted the atheist's goal for our church? Is religion just something we do on weekends? Have our churches simply become a social club for like-minded people?
I was in an IFBx church. The people were more motivated by politics and the tea party than conformity to Christ. There was a large effort to reach those poor bus kids, but it was honestly more altruistic feelings to comfort their guilt of gluttony than helping people. The church was a social club. If you fit in, fine. If not, you aren't right with God and have become a stinkin' liberal. I have seen this in liberal churches also. If you want to accept our status quo, you will fit in well with our weekly meetings, if not, you are probably a bigot.
Has status quo Christianity invaded the church? Has church become more about seeing our friends than conforming to Christ and fulfilling the Great Commission? If so, have the atheists accomplished their stated goal for Christianity? How much of status quo Christianity is the result of a carefully calculated manipulation of society and Christians to produce this callousness?
In Expelled (No Intelligence), Biologist PZ Myers proclaims:
"If you separate the ethics from religion, you are simply left with fairy tales. Religion is an idea that gives some people comfort, like knitting. We're not going to take away their knitting needles or their churches. However, religion should be treated as something fun that people get together and do on the weekend and really doesn't affect their life."
OK, I may not have quoted exactly, but it is pretty close. See the interview at the 1:00:00 mark.
As I listened to this, I began to ponder, have we adopted the atheist's goal for our church? Is religion just something we do on weekends? Have our churches simply become a social club for like-minded people?
I was in an IFBx church. The people were more motivated by politics and the tea party than conformity to Christ. There was a large effort to reach those poor bus kids, but it was honestly more altruistic feelings to comfort their guilt of gluttony than helping people. The church was a social club. If you fit in, fine. If not, you aren't right with God and have become a stinkin' liberal. I have seen this in liberal churches also. If you want to accept our status quo, you will fit in well with our weekly meetings, if not, you are probably a bigot.
Has status quo Christianity invaded the church? Has church become more about seeing our friends than conforming to Christ and fulfilling the Great Commission? If so, have the atheists accomplished their stated goal for Christianity? How much of status quo Christianity is the result of a carefully calculated manipulation of society and Christians to produce this callousness?