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What Do Y'all Think of Fred Clark?

Started by QueenThera, July 03, 2011, 06:51:21 AM

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QueenThera

July 03, 2011, 06:51:21 AM
He's an evangelical Christian who believes the Left Behind series is instructively shitty, and that Hell has no real biblical basis.

http://www.patheos.com/community/slacktivist/2011/06/13/tf-how-not-to-do-evangelism/

This article in particular struck me as a good example of a less-wrong approach to Christianity.

The idea of viewing people as guys like you with their own stories to tell (that are actually interesting) and not just targets to sell your shit to is a good one. Too bad it's not really popular out there.

Your thoughts?
Often incoherent. Tends to ramble on about various topics.
Hopes to get beyond that.

Formerly BrotherPrickle

Cain

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July 03, 2011, 10:55:40 AM
Fred Clark's a decent guy, in my book.

His "slacktavist" blog often takes apart the theologically and ethically dubious arguments of the Religious Right and, as an evangelical himself, he is obviously quite well versed in both the Bible itself but, somewhat unusually, the philosophical thinking behind many Christian traditions as well and where they differ/agree.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

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July 03, 2011, 04:10:58 PM
This line about the "Left Behind" books is priceless:

QuoteI don't want to leave off here only saying that L&J have provided a manual on How Not To Do Evangelism. They certainly have provided that — offering a template for evangelism that seems designed to inspire ill-feeling on all sides and to be as ineffectual as it is unpleasant.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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