Originally Posted by
Abbey
I absolutely challenge this person's statement that "thousands of right wing white preachers" speak this way (Btw, what a subtly perjorative sentence to begin with). I've been to many Catholic and Protestant churches, as have my husband, parents, and brothers, and never have any of us known a pastor who speaks like this. If these issues are even brought up, it is in the context of prayer, not condemnation or revolution.
I've never even been to a church that mentions politics other than to say do your civic duty and vote your conscience.
If we were as industrious to become good as to make ourselves great, we should become really great by being good, and the number of valuable men would be much increased; but it is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and i pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." - Ben Franklin
Imagine what good we can do if we all joined together, united as followers of Christ - M. Russell Ballard