My thoughts on Christians and their roles in politics.
American Christian or Christian American?
Antwuan Malone2021-07-05T03:52:48-05:00American Christian or Christian American? I get most frustrated [...]
The Colorado Shooting: A Reminder to the American Church
Antwuan Malone2021-07-05T03:56:25-05:00The Colorado Shooting: A Reminder to the American Church [...]
Said Politics to Religion, “I Want A Divorce!”
Antwuan Malone2021-07-05T04:03:38-05:00It doesn't matter the subject: prayer in schools, legalizing abortion, same-sex marriage, capital punishment, the Christian church, in large part, has come to expect that its for life should also be America's rules for life. Maybe not down to every detail (after all, we haven't made fornication illegal yet. And we certainly don't expect American government to take care of the poor the way Jesus asks his followers to), but for the most part, we expect the Bible to carry some weight in American legislation. For some unsubstantiated reason, we feel we deserve it.
Same Sex Marriage, President Obama, and the Church
Antwuan Malone2021-07-05T04:04:26-05:00Same Sex Marriage, President Obama, and the Church The [...]
An Entitlement Society
Antwuan Malone2019-02-07T01:32:26-06:00An Open Hands Society You’re driving home in the pouring [...]
America a Christian Nation? Hardly!
Antwuan Malone2021-07-05T01:59:00-05:00America is not at all a Christian nation. Not even a little. The first of the 10 commandments (the one I believe Jesus does the least amount of tampering with in his own answers to questions about laws and such) is simple. “You shall have no other gods before me.” I bring up the ten commandments because it is probably the most cited source of pre-American, biblical legislation by those who would disagree with my assessment of America’s Christian brand. It is, for them, a basis (one of many) from which our forefathers drew the constitution. The importance of "putting no other god before" God cannot be...