To additional perceive Wednesday’s story on the FLDS cult up in Cook dinner County additional, take a look at the e-book, “Below the Banner of Heaven” by Jon Krakauer, that tells the story of a fundamentalist Mormon household. The older brothers kill the youngest brother’s spouse as a result of she doesn’t comply with the religion carefully sufficient, they usually did it within the identify of God.
We’ve simply seen the identical factor play out in Minnesota the place a proper wing, pro-lifer kills a legislator and her husband, and shoots one other senator and his spouse, all as a result of they don’t stay as much as his spiritual beliefs, whereas spurred on by his social gathering and its chief to “combat like hell” and go to warfare otherwise you gained’t have a rustic anymore.
Faith is a good factor when it helps make folks be a greater model of themselves, and conjures up service to others as Jesus did. When it’s used to exclude, choose and look at others as higher sinners or lesser people, it’s a horrible factor.
The “spiritual proper” must put Christ again in Christianity.
Karl Samp
Brainerd
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