Christian author has problem with conservatives (CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- Donald Miller still loves God and Jesus. Don't misunderstand him.

His problem is with Christianity, at least how it's often practiced.

"It's a dangerous term so I try to avoid it," said Miller, who considered giving up his career as a Christian writer and leaving the church in 2003 because he couldn't attend services without getting angry.

For him, the word conjured up conservative politics, suburban consumerism and an "insensitivity to people who aren't like us."

To quell his rage, he sat in his boxer shorts and banged out a memoir of his experiences with God, stripped of the trappings of religion.
***
more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/01/24/best.selling.christian.ap/index.html

[Afje]

1. Poor thing

He's having a problem with the fact that some people actually do as the Bible preaches. I guess he's the kind of Christian who only wants to cherry pick the lovy dovy parts of the Bible and can't stand those that cherry pick only the divisive, hateful parts. Sorry pal, your need for a personal, invisible friend comes as a package deal.

[Ian David]

2. Dear God...

Send more like THIS guy, please.

"I felt, once again, that there was this underlying hostility for homosexuals and Democrats and, well, hippie types. I cannot tell you how much I did not want liberal or gay people to be my enemies. I liked them," he wrote. "The real issue in the Christian community was that (love) was conditional ... You were loved in word, but there was, without question, a social commodity that was being withheld from you until you shaped up."

And don't send any more like THIS guy...

One such critic, Shane Walker, says Miller presents Jesus as a "nice fellow who meets one at the campfire and swaps stories." He forgets to remind readers that Jesus is also a judge and avenger who "wants to save you from his just wrath," according to his review for "Blue Like Jazz" , an organization designed to help local churches re-establish their biblical bearings.

Amen.

More:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/01/24/best.selling.christian.ap/index.html

[papau]

3. Amen - fellow's Universalist beliefs come straight from Bible (1 Corinthians 15)

1 Corinthians 15 (New International Version)

25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27For he "has put everything under his feet." Now when it says that "everything" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.



So everyone under him - and everyone saved - despite what Augustine felt.