August, 2011<\/p>\n
It is presumed that those who are in positions of authority as teachers of the Scriptures and analysts of the times \u2500 who discern the issues and evaluate moral matters by means of the Standard of Christian morality \u2500 would pursue their duty with honesty, integrity, and with courage.<\/p>\n
Ah, but be not so presumptuous.\u00a0 It was nothing but treachery for such watchmen to present Clinton in any other way but as lying adulterer who advanced the shedding of innocent blood, sodomy, and debt in America.<\/p>\n
CACN, Summer, 1994<\/p>\n
Christianity Today <\/em>editor at large Philip Yancy is a fine writer.\u00a0 But his article reporting an interview with Bill Clinton in the 25 April issue was infested with that journalistic neutrality which just can’t seem to make a judgment (i.e. discriminate between good and evil).<\/p>\n What is the point of presenting a few hundred thousand Christian subscribers with disarming information about Clinton’s “Christian faith”?\u00a0 Yancy tells us that while a youth, Bill “asked a Sunday-school teacher to drive him 50 miles to attend a Billy Graham crusade” and that “from then on Clinton set aside nickels and dimes to send to Graham.”\u00a0 And, (Glory to God!) “school teachers thought Bill himself might grow up to be an evangelist.”<\/p>\n Yes, and Yancy tells us that Bill reads the Bible and Tony Campolo and that one Christian college president is “absolutely convinced of his deep and sincere faith.”\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 And “another evangelical guest at the White House claimed that the President . . . has a very high view of Scripture.”<\/p>\n More hope.\u00a0 Yancy quotes former editor of Falwell’s Fundamentalist Journal<\/em>, Edward Dobson on Clinton: “I believe he’s more deeply spiritual than any President we’ve had in recent years.”<\/p>\n If there is cause for sympathy for Clinton’s godlessness, perhaps it rightfully stems from the vapid, undiscerning, Billy Grahamish evangelicalism of which he is a ripe product.\u00a0 But he remains as wrong as sin, and sure as hell he will be judged for his deeds along with the indiscriminate evangelicals who produced and excused him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August, 2011 It is presumed that those who are in positions of authority as teachers of the Scriptures and analysts of the times \u2500 who discern the issues and evaluate moral matters by means of the Standard of Christian morality \u2500 would pursue their duty with honesty, integrity, and with courage. Ah, but be not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}