Politicized Church
"So the problem is politicism, not zealous bigotry. Politicism is not of Christ, is it?"
"No," Reverend Pelletier said very seriously. "We have lived in Africa during the period of eighteen years — almost nineteen years — when we had dissident Christians (around us). You have to live near such Christians to experience what they really are. They have a politicized church in which a ‘Christian brother’ will say to you that if you don’t do what they want you to do, your head will roll down the bank. That isn’t a very lovely Christian solution. You have to understand the extremes and perversions of ‘politicized Christians.’
"You know," he continued, "if you have a politicized church, you can have a crusade or religious war. I talked to an Irish person in the hospital the other day. She said, ‘Chaplain, don’t you believe for a minute that this war in Ireland is a religious war. People have used the terms, taken the terms, Catholic and Protestant, and voluntarily imposed these terms on groups of people. But it is not a Christian war in Ireland. It’s a political war.’"
Goal of a Baptist
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