“Bizarre” means weird
“Bazaar” is a shopping area

Again, English-teacher mother…

I just read your re-post on Brent’s blog. I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate the attention to this article, and you made your point very clearly (I don’t understand why some of the other commenters think otherwise).
My new job has put me into a community where “everyone” is a Christian, or they at least all go to church somewhere. No one is involved in real outreach and world missions seems to be a ‘neat’ idea.
Thanks for the good read. Keep writing.

Laura

You see 200 years ago it was Evangelicals who were running EVERYTHING. If you didn’t go to church, you couldn’t vote, and there were no other churches. But we were tolerant of other faiths…particularly a 100 years ago as thousands of Catholics immigrated we allowed others to get in the wagon. Over the last 30 years LOTS of others (Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witness, Hindus…) have gotten in the wagon…the last on being the atheists/agnostics (mostly represented by the ACLU). I find it ironic that the last in the wagon became the least tolerant and effectively threw Evangelicals out of the wagon. So as we watch our freedoms get taken away…what’s a Christian to do? Did we not pray hard enough in the 60’s as prayer was eliminated in school? Did we not trust God enough when the 10 commandments came down in every public building in the 80’s. And here we are in 2006 where every wisdom is accepted (Steven Covey, Dr. Phil, Oprah, …) except the Holy Bible.

If Evangelicals want to come together and organize politically, and as a result a commercial Christian market develops, why would that be so bothersome?

The crazy part is…everything that pastor said makes sense, and I certainly agree with what I wrote…but the real answer lies in God’s Word.

Thanks for getting things stirred up.