Southern Baptist Church, and Democrats Options

[Jaq]

A Southern Baptist church in East Waynesville, North Carolina has expelled all of its Democrats

Well, actually 9 of them have been expelled and another additional 40 left as protest.

From another message board:

She (posters mother) said WLOS tv just broke in to report that the East Waynesville Baptist church has officially excommunicated all its democratic members.

She said that before the election, the preacher told the congregation from the pulpit that if they didn't vote for * they had to come to the altar to confess their sins and repent. they could'nt be members. (My Mom doesn't attend that church--she's United Methodist, but I know of lots who do attend).

From Mom's email: "One of the local women who got excommunicated said on TV that it was like a cult. Another man who got excommunicated said that the rest of the congregation stood up and applauded as the Democrats were told to leave."

This seems to signal to me another step towards not just the gradual blurring of the boundary between church and state, but a full blown theocracy.

Ten Commandments in public places, debating homosexual marriage in the context of religion (when it's a secular government policy and wouldn't have any impact on churches as they wouldn't be required to perform homosexual marriage ceremonies), prayer in schools... the list goes on..


What think you? The States heading towards a theocracy, or am I just blowing things out of proportion? Would a theocracy be such a bad thing? Why? Why not? Please submit your essays by 5:00 p.m. 500 words or less.

[believe]

There goes Bush and most of the world then! A list like that does put things in perspective though: how can such values be applied to modern life when even the leaders of our countries are incapable of resisting things that are placed on an equal level with being 'sexually immoral'.

Because (I hope) we don't live by what people fail to do, but by what we should do. People murder, lie and generally be abusive at times, but we don't cease to apply those values because people fail at it. (And no, I'm not comparing sexuality to murder, ect personally, so please don't flame me.)

I get frightened by people who say things like 'Our actions have no direct bearing on our salvation', that to me speaks of a disregard for personal responsibility and accountability.

Er.. I think (hope) he's just mentioning a part of it, in order to avoid they 'you can be saved by deeds alone' bit. Only Jesus can save us according to the Bible, sure. Actions aren't a ticket to Heaven.. but if you love God enough to follow Him and mean it.. your actions are supposed to show it. Obediance and good deeds are mentioned as the 'proof' of love. Proof that you aren't just saying it on Sundays and ignoring it 9 times out of 10 because you don't care. Like if I say I love anyone, it should show in how I treat them. I'm hoping thats what he meant. A lot of people do seem to get the idea that they must be perfect to get to heaven and make themselves miserable trying to be perfect and then failing.