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Conservative Christians have been in deep despair this week, ever since the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision saying anti-discrimination laws that protect employees on the basis of sex apply to gay and transgender people, too. (The question of whether an employers religious beliefs can override those rules has been kicked down the road.)
Kevin DeYoung, a writer for The Gospel Coalition, is one of those people very concerned about this shift in the culture, where even two conservative justices could side with the Courts liberals.
But dont worry! He has a plan to beat the system!
Evangelicals just need to have lots of children and raise them to be culture warriors. That will solve everything!
This is actually one of the oldest evangelistic tactics in the book well outbreed everyone! but DeYoung writes about it in a way that makes it seem like his clan is desperately grasping at straws to stay relevant:
The future belongs to the fecund. Its time for happy warriors who seek to renew the city and win the culture war by investing in their local church, focusing on the family, and bringing the kingdom to bear on the world, one baby at a time.
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no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)Which is why my step-daughter and son-in-law have four kids they can barely support.
Maeve
(42,288 posts)And too many of you are past all that
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)all about getting money into the pocket of the church and the pastor.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)One could argue that Idiocracy was a documentary in disguise, however we see its message reinforced these days in many ways:
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Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Thats how to start the process of population reduction.
Also free birth control, free vasectomies and ultra cheap OTC abortion drugs.
Also...ABORTION ON DEMAND.
Our existence on this planet depends on it.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,818 posts)amongst Evangelical hypocrites....
Tech
(1,772 posts)be a Catholic church. The rest of us are reformed.