Simplistic Complexity

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the crust, mantle, great gulf and hell.

Our last attempt to explain to a Pastor that hell is in the center of the Earth didn’t go well. It was over a year ago and we’ve been biding our time since, intentionally avoiding contentious public disputes with other Christians.

Submit to the Law

God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, wrote the Bible and God knew that this day would come. Peter, foreseeing that the Church could come under attack for failing to obey local law, exhorts us to obey all laws.

Corporal Punishment

As a single dad who's been chewed up and spat out by by social services there isn't anything more sickening than a Pastor preaching at full-tilt and yelling about how he beat his kids for any minor infraction of his authority.

Restricted Speech

They didn't have a Constitution or a First Amendment in Paul's day, but it looks like the New Testament is unconstitutional. That's ironic given that many Evangelicals are gun-toting advocates of the Second Amendment.

Intolerance

Intolerance is anathema to Christianity, in theory, so it is particularly warped that Evangelicals have developed a very strong climate of intolerance based on Bible passages. Society, by-and-large and increasingly so, is tolerant.