yet again, i find myself regretting my faith...

[acroyear]

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Praise the Lord and Pass the Switchblade:

Here's more of that good Christian charity. We're told constantly that school prayer will help keep kids from being immoral; apparently that doesn't hold true in Crawford County, Georgia. Two teachers there recently asked the school board to stop opening their meetings with prayer. Their reward? Vandalism.

The teachers asked the school board last month to stop giving invocations, which are routinely Christian and often mention Jesus Christ by name, at monthly board meetings and events such as new teacher orientation.

That same night, Laura Meldrum, a special education teacher, and Charles Gaston, who teaches English, found their car tires slashed in the school board's parking lot.

Yep, that's just what Jesus would do.

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[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

Not to start a big kerfuffle or anything, but what do different denominations do about stuff like that? Why don't the more moderate Christians take back their faith from the wackos that have corrupted it?

I see lots of stuff done in the name of Christianity that seem to be directly at odds with Scripture. In Matthew 7:1-2 we get the admonishment against passing judgement or we will be judged similarly. In John 8:1-11, we are told of the story of the adulterous woman about to be stoned and Jesus says that those without sin should be the first ones to start stoning her and the crowd disperses.

Why don't a town's mainstream ministers and parrishoners get together and do something about those that distort the faith?

I understand about our Constitution and Freedom of Speech issues (I'm thinking primarily of those wackos that protest at funerals of soldiers) but why don't the ministers go and talk with those people and at least attempt to show them the errors of their ways?

I haven't been a part of a congregation in 20 years and haven't considered myself a Christian with a capital "C" in about that long, so I don't have any idea of the current state of Christianity in the US. Whatever happened to all those Moderate Methodists, Caring Catholics, and Preservering Presbyterians that quietly prayed and did lots of good things and rarely rocked the boat unless there was great social injustice from my youth?