Wimpish Christians urged to fight their way into Heaven

[emad]

Times
By Ruth Gledhill

THEY are Britain’s meek, mild-mannered Christian men whose most outrageous role model is Sir Cliff Richard and sole point of physical contact a limp handshake with the vicar after church.

But the stereotype of Britain’s God-fearing males could soon become a thing of the past after the extraordinary success of a book urging Christian men to ditch their soft image and embrace a life of adventure.

Swimming among killer whales and tangling with a bull moose are just two of the practical tips offered in Wild at Heart by the American evangelist John Eldredge, who calls for men to rediscover God by modelling themselves on heroic warriors such as Henry V and Mel Gibson’s interpretation of William Wallace.

The book, whose overriding message is that “God designed men to be dangerous”, is a bestseller after just three months in Christian bookshops in Britain and Mr Eldredge’s Colorado-based company, Ransomed Heart Ministries, is considering setting up its Wild at Heart weekends at which men are taught how to “recover their masculine soul” by watching films such as Gladiator, in which Russell Crowe plays the sword-brandishing title role, and Gibson’s Braveheart.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-1458447,00.html

[cheezus]

1. WWJD

oh wait... I don't LIKE what jesus would do... so I'll just pretend he wanted me to do this instead.

[txaslftist]

7. Exactly...

You want a recent model of Christlike behavior? Look to Ghandi, not Rambo.

[oneighty]

2. Or they could join the Marines

show all of us what a real man might do. These people are full of poop and fear, they each will die a thousand deaths.

180

[Zenlitened]

3. "Swimming among killer whales and tangling with a bull moose"???

What's this Eldredge guy's real motive? To get people killed?

Yeesh.

[WildClarySage]

4. works for me.

[Zenlitened]

6. How ironic, that people could end up in the Darwin Files...

... because they've been sold a bill of goods about some sort of "macho Jesus."

:eyes:

[ixion]

5. According to their own religion, vanity is one of the seven deadly sins

and vanity seems to be precisely what this guy is preaching, IMO.

Just an observation. :evilgrin:

[ernstbass]

8. Onward Christian soldiers!

[tubbacheez]

9. Goodness, take a martial art or something and learn some REAL control.

That is... the control of the self.