Confronting Darkness

If you read the Gospels, the Religious Right is most often wrong

This insightful article effectively discredits all the hype from the Religious Right declaring that Jesus was a "big winner" in last month's elections indicating that "we're on the brink of a second Great Awakening." How much farther from the truth can the Religious Right be? In comparing the narrative of the Gospels with the theology of the Religious Right, the author concludes that "the Religious Right's contribution to the denigration of Christianity will continue unabated until other Christian communities come up with a compelling alternative." His assessment of the state of the Church and it's lack of true Christ-like leadership leads him to a most sobering indictment against the Body of Christ in this nation: "...I'm not optimistic about the survival of the Christian tradition in our culture. What many view as a great spiritual revival looks a lot to me like another stage of rot in American Christianity's corpse."

I for one am not disappointed to see American Christianity's corpse rot. Its brand of religion has nothing to do with the true Church as demonstrated in the pages of the New Testament. Notwithstanding, God will have a Bride without spot or wrinkle who will be that "compelling alternative" providing godly leadership and accurately demonstrating Jesus Christ to the world around it. This remnant will have nothing to do with worldly politics, but everything to do with fulfilling God's eternal purpose for which she is being raised up. She will be hated and persecuted by both the world and the "institutionalized church" of which the Religious Right is a part because as the same in Jesus' day hated Him, so they will hate His true representation in this time as well.

If you read the Gospels, as the writer of this article suggests, you will not find that the Religious Right is most often wrong. On the contrary, in light of the Spirit of Truth, the Religious Right is always wrong.