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Many twenty and thirty something Christians voice valid concerns over mistakes my generation of believers made.\u00a0 For the record, I am fifty-five.<\/strong><\/p>\n My generation screwed up in a number of ways.\u00a0 For example, confusing the gospel with certain political commitments brought much confusion.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Getting in bed with the Moral Majority and the “Christian” Coalition were disasters.\u00a0 I put Christian in scare quotes because I was told by one of their officials that you did not have to be a Christian to belong as long as you held to its political platform!\u00a0 Among other things, this led to gross inconsistencies where the Christian Coalition would invite Newt Gingrich to speak at its conferences even though his religious beliefs at the time (it may have changed) was a hodgepodge ranging from New Age stuff to retrieving his childhood background of being a Baptist.\u00a0 Devoted followers of Jesus from backgrounds which have serious reservations over America’s eagerness to use military might did not get invited to speak.\u00a0 Since there was a desire to maintain favor with the Republican party, the Christian Coalition did not want to jeopardize that by inviting a Jesus follower to speak who has serious objections with the Just War tradition. As is so often the case, it is easy to overreact to a mistake by making other mistakes.\u00a0 In other words, it is easy to throw out the proverbial baby with the bathwater.\u00a0 And that is just what I see too many twenty and thirty something Christians doing. More on that in upcoming posts…<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many twenty and thirty something Christians voice valid concerns over mistakes my generation of believers made.\u00a0 For the record, I am fifty-five. My generation screwed up in a number of ways.\u00a0 For example, confusing the gospel with certain political commitments brought much confusion.\u00a0 Getting in bed with the Moral Majority and the “Christian” Coalition were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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