[FoRK] God Of Love redux

[Ian Andrew Bell]

On 19-Feb-08, at 9:14 AM, Jeff Bone wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>
>> On Feb 16, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Tom Higgins wrote:
>>>
>>> For the second time in six months, Buena Park pastor Wiley S. Drake
>>> has called on his followers to pray for the demise of leaders of
>>> Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
>>
>> Yes, many Christians are idiots and jerks.  Thank God atheists  
>> don't have that problem. :-)
>
> Don't you think there's, oh, just a wee bit more going on here than  
> somebody being an "idiot" or a "jerk" on an individual basis?   
> Really?  You honestly think that the right reverend Drake's behavior  
> is no more or less objectionable for being cloaked in the trappings  
> of faith than, say, some non-believer who's blunt about how they  
> feel about belief in general?

Well, I would argue there's a problem tagging Pastor Drake as simply a  
random idiot who happens to be Christian, given that he's a duly- 
appointed/anointed representative of the faith, presumably endorsed  
all the way up to the Big Guy Himself.

While he is clearly an idiot, he's an idiot speaking for the entire  
faith.

-Ian.

PS - Didn't you folks separate Church and State via the constitution?   
Sad that you need to advocate that which is already written into law.