I’M A BIT OF A
CYNIC….
Not unusual for
a re-formed republican who voted for Ross Perot
way back when - after Bush the Elder said “read my lips”. These
days I call myself a “conservative independent”. No, you wouldn’t
catch me in a Democrat gathering but, at a Republican affair, my first
inclination
is to ferret-out the RINOs.
That’s one
reason I like to watch Glenn Beck on
FOXNews. The other is that I’m pointed to historical materials I, as a
history buff, never before came across. Glenn is providing a valuable
service
to the public. He is educating a slew of people who call themselves
Americans -
making them consider WHY they do so. Lately, he is bringing home the
point “We
are endowed by our Creator……” – a point many have
forgotten. Doesn’t God say to return to Him, repent, and He will “heal
thy land”?
Now, as to
Glenn’s Mormonism: to me, it’s
personal.
My road to
born-again Christianity began with being born
into and raised in the Catholic Church. It wasn’t until college and a
course in comparative religions that I even considered the fact that Jesus
was a Jew. I began reading everything I could on all the
world’s
faiths, including for the first time the Bible. I welcomed in Seventh
Day Adventists
and Jehovah Witnesses when they knocked on my door and read their
publications.
Then, years later, I hired a Mormon nanny to be part of my household.
She
promptly placed the Book of Mormon in my hands. I read that book too
but
concluded that Joseph Smith was, at best, deceived and, at worse, an
opportunist. But, must all his followers be painted
with the same brush
for following generally Christian principles? Are All
Catholics
going to hell – even the ones who were burned at the stake?
Are all
Protestants saved – even those who killed each other in the name of
their
own interpretation of Scripture?
Glenn recently
said something which touches all of us: (paraphrased)
salvation is NOT a community affair – it’s personal.
My road to a
personal relationship with Jesus took many detours
and many years. But I gained much knowledge with which to make a
‘reasoned’
decision. God says: let us reason together. Glenn may be in
the reasoning
stage. We shouldn’t let any of our ‘progressive’ political
tendencies, which unfortunately permeate many Christian churches, get
in his
way. We should remember that Jesus didn’t value the company of his own
religious elite but went out of his way to consort with those they
deemed unseemly.
The Shepherd goes after His lost sheep.
Marie Komar