Marginal Christianity

Jun 14, 2016 | Posted by Brett McCracken | Christian Life , Church , Politics | 0 comments | Last fall, around the time when Donald Trump first made his infamous call to ban all Muslim immigration to the United States out of fear that it may be a “Trojan Horse” of terrorist infiltration, I wrote a blog post calling for Christians to welcome immigrants and refugees, even if it is costly to us. I wrote: The way of Jesus Christ is not closing doors to asylum-seeking refugees or building walls to keep out foreigners. The way of Jesus Christ is not about forsaking the well-being of others in order to protect one’s ...

http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2013/01/its-the-rights-culture-not-the-gun-culture/ by Greg Weiner on January 18, 2013 · 14 comments   Print this article in Articles , Culture, High & Low , Politics & Power As President Obama contemplates the political obstacles looming before the gun control agenda he announced on Wednesday, he might look closer to home for their cause.  It is not the gun culture alone that must be overcome if reasonable limitations on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips are to be imposed.  It is the rights culture—the relentless assumption, which liberals pioneered and conservatives have accepted, that the Bill of Rights isolates the individual from considerations of the common good decided upon by the representatives of deliberate majorities.  The American founders did not see their handiwork this way. The rights culture roosted in Newtown, Connecticut, in the preposterous claim that ...