By ANTHONY B. ROBINSON
GUEST COLUMNIST
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""What it sounds like are the kinds of words that have paved the way for atrocities in such places as Serbia, Kosovo and Rwanda. You have to dehumanize somebody before you beat them up. Labeling some men as "soft" and "effeminate" and saying "God hates them" does that.
Karen,
Interesting article. Disgusting, but interesting as well.
Even in the book of Acts it says that when Paul was brought before the magistrates he didn't "blasphemy their godess."
I think many pastors have forgotten that they are to feed the flock and not rebuke the world outside their church. Those sermons that rebuke, reprove and exhort are to guide the members put into their care by God. Maybe when they have a flock that is perfect in the eyes of God they can rebuke everyone else. And I just don't see that happening. Not with the state the churchworld is in today.
Frank