The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville ran a question-and-answer piece with Richard Land, who is president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which, according to the article, works closely with the White House.
Land is full of the normal things you'd expect, but his take on one issue in particular caught my attention. First, he asserted
"What's been happening over the last 25 years in this country is that significant segments of the society have increasingly rejected the '60s counterculture."
When asked, "Is our nation experiencing a religious revolution or just a deep cultural divide?," Land referenced a woman who asked him a question at a conference, saying
"...it was clear from the woman's whole demeanor and dress and her jewelry that she was obviously someone who had peace symbols somewhere in her closet, and who had sung many, many stanzas of 'All we are saying is, give peace a chance.'"
Furthermore, Land spoke for evangelicals everywhere when he said
"There was a very stiff discussion in this election about which way to [protect the American people], whether the primary way to do that was through military power — whether this is a war — or whether this is a law enforcement problem. And evangelicals strongly believe in the president's view that it's a war, not a law enforcement problem."
While one might assume that his reference to the peace imagery is a stereotyping of someone from the so-called '60s counterculture, I can't help but wonder "WWJS?" (What Would Jesus Sing?). What part of the Bible has the Southern Baptist Convention uncovered that casts peace in a negative light? Hmm, war as a platform in a religion -- sounds eerily like what some are accusing Muslims of.
(By the way, I'm not sure when that "very stiff discussion" about law enforcement versus war occurred, but maybe there should have been a "very stiff discussion" about just where and upon whom the focus of our war/law enforcement should be in order to better protect us)
This is just more proof that they're out of control, and it has nothing to do with morality, and everything to do with power. Orwellian, indeed.
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