CDP says Christians who vote Green have rejected God. I say the CDP have misrepresented God!
November 26th 2007 00:35
I do not believe the CDP is a Christian Party. There are Christians amongst them, however the views they have and the policies they support could be deemed thoroughly unChristian, as they seem to be quite contrary to a simple “What Would Jesus Do?” test.
I am particularly offended by the racism expressed in their flyers. We used to live in the Bankstown area, where we had many neighbours from different nationalities. To have these dropped in our neighbours’ letterboxes, saying that a party calling themselves one supporting “Christian values” in essence wanted them gone, was thoroughly offensive to us as Christians and to our neighbours. It also misrepresented Christianity in a most divisive way, and put up blocks to evangelism. This racist attitude is contrary to the mind of Christ, as revealed to us in Scripture.
The CDP in this election have gone even further, calling for an immediate suspension of Islamic Immigration. Such a hateful and divisive stance is racist and unchristian.
Last week saw the death of Ian Smith, the former Rhodesian PM, who was extremely racist and declared that “blacks” should never rule his land, not in a thousand years. Leaders who make such divisive, hateful remarks, fuel extremists on both sides. Hatred and violence grows. The party being attacked seeks comfort amongst those who are like them, and are more susceptible to the allure of radical ideas which seek to hurt those who have hurt them.
In communities where the “white, western Christians” glare and curse at those who are from other lands, and claim the “others” don’t have the right to be there, work there, worship in the way they want and dress how they’d like; hatred and fear grows. Extremists provide a sense of belonging for those being marginalised that their host culture does not. It is a breeding ground for terrorism. The two sides involved in the Cronulla riots gave us a glimpse of what can happen. September 11th and the Iraq War show it in vivid detail. Neither side wins, and God gets no glory.
Furthermore the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe is the result of Ian Smith’s ideas. If we don’t want radical Islamists exercising Sharia Law in Australia, like the CDP, then history shows the answer is not to hate and vilify “the other”. The answer is to love them and build relationships, with the hope of pointing people to Christ. For then true submission to God will be exercised by both parties, and God will be glorified.
We should be very wary of promoting and electing people who are vocally racist. We should be appalled as Christians when someone says they are a follower of Christ; God in human flesh; and yet says such hateful things against their fellow creations. They misrepresent God, Christianity, and the Bible, to those who might have never heard the Gospel of grace.
I applaud Sandy Grant for his statement. I ask other Christians to call the CDP to account on their policies. After all, they claim to represent us. It is only right that they represent Christianity as taught in the Scriptures, so that God may be glorified.
This post also occurs on the attached link, with a poll.
I am particularly offended by the racism expressed in their flyers. We used to live in the Bankstown area, where we had many neighbours from different nationalities. To have these dropped in our neighbours’ letterboxes, saying that a party calling themselves one supporting “Christian values” in essence wanted them gone, was thoroughly offensive to us as Christians and to our neighbours. It also misrepresented Christianity in a most divisive way, and put up blocks to evangelism. This racist attitude is contrary to the mind of Christ, as revealed to us in Scripture.
Last week saw the death of Ian Smith, the former Rhodesian PM, who was extremely racist and declared that “blacks” should never rule his land, not in a thousand years. Leaders who make such divisive, hateful remarks, fuel extremists on both sides. Hatred and violence grows. The party being attacked seeks comfort amongst those who are like them, and are more susceptible to the allure of radical ideas which seek to hurt those who have hurt them.
In communities where the “white, western Christians” glare and curse at those who are from other lands, and claim the “others” don’t have the right to be there, work there, worship in the way they want and dress how they’d like; hatred and fear grows. Extremists provide a sense of belonging for those being marginalised that their host culture does not. It is a breeding ground for terrorism. The two sides involved in the Cronulla riots gave us a glimpse of what can happen. September 11th and the Iraq War show it in vivid detail. Neither side wins, and God gets no glory.
We should be very wary of promoting and electing people who are vocally racist. We should be appalled as Christians when someone says they are a follower of Christ; God in human flesh; and yet says such hateful things against their fellow creations. They misrepresent God, Christianity, and the Bible, to those who might have never heard the Gospel of grace.
I applaud Sandy Grant for his statement. I ask other Christians to call the CDP to account on their policies. After all, they claim to represent us. It is only right that they represent Christianity as taught in the Scriptures, so that God may be glorified.
This post also occurs on the attached link, with a poll.
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