HOT!! Philosopher Peter Ludlow's 95 Theses on the Religious Right

[Cell Whitman]

found this at Dr. Prescott's blog

Check it out, I posted a couple at the bottom but please post any that jump out at you.... (my compter is having troubles or I would download the whole thing and post - as the author wants it distributed.)

comments?

95 Theses on the Religious Right

Philosopher Peter Ludlow (Michigan) writes:

Here's something you may not have known or suspected. When I grew up my family went to a conservative Christian church and I subsequently went to a Swedish Baptist college in Minnesota. I recently went back to my home town and was sickened by what became of the family church over the last 20 years. The received view is that the conservative christians have taken over the Republican Party. I think the reverse happened. The right wing of the Republican Party has taken over the church. Nothing could be more clear to me. In a fit of revulsion, and with a nod to Marty Luther, I wrote up the following 95 theses on the relighous right: Download ludlows_95_theses_on_the_religious_right.doc

In lieu of nailing it to the door of the Wittenburg Church I'm sending it to you instead. Not exactly the same thing, I realize. I'm not saying I'm a believer and I'm not saying I'm not, but I am saying that what has happened to the fundamentalist church is revolting.

Professor Ludlow invites readers to redistribute it as widely as they'd like. (Here is an RTF version of the same document: Download ludlows_95_theses_on_the_religious_right.rtf)

Here are a few of the theses:

1. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said "love thy neighbor", willed that believers should show *compassion* toward others.

2. This word cannot be understood to mean mere lip service ("I love them, but I hate their sin"), but genuine concern for the welfare of others. ...

20. Gays, for example, are persecuted because of their alleged sins. In some cases, leaders of the Religious Right have encouraged acts of physical violence against gays.

21. While the Religious Right has been eager to persecute others for their alleged sins, they have been blind to their own.

22. While the Bible counsels that a rich man can no more enter the of Heaven than a camel can pass through the eye of a needle, many in the Religious Right have celebrated the acquisition of wealth.

23. While the Bible enjoins us against pride, the Religious Right appears to be flush with pride in it's holier than thou stance.

24. While the Bible asks that we be slow to anger, the Religious Right is quick to anger -- indeed it appears to revel in anger and in fanning the flames of anger in others.

25. While the Bible counsels that we are not to be "revilers," key members of the religious right have consistently and aggressively reviled their political enemies as well as those who are perceived to be sinners.

26. It seems then, that the Religious Right picks its sins selectively, ignoring the clear Biblical message against avarice, pride, and anger, and emphasizing selected “sins” that have little to no Biblical basis.

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Have you ever googled "America's newspaper"?



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[undergroundpanther]

1. Good Stuf!

KICK and reccomend!

[undergroundpanther]

2. Oh and BTW

In that list of there is no biblical support for..Child abuse homophobia ect..He is in error here.

There IS biblical support for it..Disgusting but true.
The reason there is no ETHICAL reason to suThe bible isn't about human rights and God is no respector of persons..

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. Printed it out and am nailing it on the door of my fundie church!

[Cell Whitman]

4. oooooh now there's an idea

plaster these babies on the door to your local fundy church.

[Cell Whitman]

5. last call on this "hot" thread!!

:)


93. In conclusion: the Religious Right has desecrated the house of God, taking a place of worship and treating it as a soap box in the service or the Right Wing of the Republican Party.

94. The Religious Right has likewise desecrated the Word of God, attributing to the Bible doctrines that are hateful, cruel, and entirely antithetical to the actual contents of the Bible.

95. Christians are to be exhorted to speak out against the Religious Right, as it is a vile heretical movement, wholly outside the teachings of the Word of God.