Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Helpful

FOREST CITY -- A sign in front of a Baptist church on one of the most traveled highways in the county stirred controversy over religious tolerance and first-amendment rights this weekend.

A sign in front of Danieltown Baptist Church, located at 2361 U.S. 221 south reads "The Koran needs to be flushed," and the Rev. Creighton Lovelace , pastor of the church, is not apologizing for the display.

"I believe that it is a statement supporting the word of God and that it (the Bible) is above all and that any other religious book that does not teach Christ as savior and lord as the 66 books of the Bible teaches it, is wrong," said Lovelace. "I knew that whenever we decided to put that sign up that there would be people who wouldn't agree with it, and there would be some that would, and so we just have to stand up for what's right."
And the already-tarnished name of Christianity takes another blow...

2 comments:

Mike said...

"That which you do to the least of my bretheren you do to me" or "Do unto other's as you would have them do unto you"

I guess they missed Bible study that day, eh?

And this is why freedom is measured by the distance between the Church and the State.

john said...

Yeah. For people who are supposedly so bound up with the New Testament, they sure seem to pay more attention to the Old one. Why is it the "eye for an eye" and "Gay=evil" stuff is so popular, but not the "moneylending=sin"?