The properly religious aspect of man's life is always in danger of being obscured because of our tendency to identify it with something other than itself. Western society since the time of the Enlightenment has consistently manifested this misunderstanding. Religion has been taken as morality with emotional overtones or, even worse, has been made one with social and political idealisms, and thought of merely as an instrument of social change. Whatever form the corruption has assumed, loss of genuine religion has been the result. American Christianity has been especially vulnerable; the practical or pragmatic bent of much American life has led time and again to the reduction of religion to morality. The sincerity of the heart has been subordinated to action and, in its lowest terms, to appearing proper in the eyes of the world.
---From Jonathan Edwards ( Religious Affections ) --- prefatory remarks
“Mixing politics and religion is like mixing ice cream and manure; it really doesn't affect the manure much, but it really messes up the ice cream." Tony Campolo
ComputerBreath wrote: “Mixing politics and religion is like mixing ice cream and manure; it really doesn't affect the manure much, but it really messes up the ice cream." Tony Campolo
Calling politics "ice cream" doesn't do it justice.... :thumbsup:
