Sure enough. The Christians for Crystal Night, USA version, got The Book of Daniel off the air. I hope you're happy, you sons (and daughters) of sanctimony. You had a chance to bring a portrayal of Jesus to the "secular" part of the community once a week, but you wanted -- demanded -- that Jesus be created in your image.
Your aims are in conflict,do you know that? You claim to be evangelical, which, I would think, would have something to do with evangelism, i.e. the presenting of the gospel, which, last time I heard, was the "good news" of the kingdom of God through Jesus Christ, by which people might be saved. But you don't want people saved, you want them damned, publicly denounced, shamed, punished, sent to hell. You want them to be silenced, excluded from all public discourse.
Jimmy Carter, a publicly proclaimed born-again Christian (whose words may be doubted but whose actions will not) states in Our Endangered Values that you of the extreme wing of Christianity believe you are absolutely right and anyone who disagrees with you absolutely wrong, therefore evil, and therefore subhuman. I think his assessment is quite correct. Such a judgment of your fellow human beings lets you off the hook: if you judge your fellows as enemies and not only evil but subhuman, you are dismissed from the task of saving them.
Your Jesus, were he to be a character in The Book of Daniel, first would berate the wayward souls in a long-winded harangue. Then he would use his supernatural powers to destroy every one of them, especially addicts and the homosexuals; he wouldn't heal them with love and mercy. All the Episcopalian losers then being roasted in hell, he would go to the pulpit of a Southern Baptist megachurch and wear an expensive suit and Rolex watch and have his name emblazoned on a big sign out front, right at the top,* of course Pastor -- Dr. Jesus Christ.
(* You don't really believe that hooey about the last being first and the greatest being servant of all, do you?)
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