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Tuesday 14 August 2012

I also think it’s important to consider that these budget cuts are being debated against a backdrop not in which the church is doing its job, but in which the church is almost comprehensively, compulsively bogus. We pat ourselves on the back for whatever it is we’re supposedly doing, and meanwhile over 100,000 kids wait for adoption while millions of capable evangelical families don’t bother doing anything about it. Or we could obliterate racial segregation in the church to such an extent that it would be shocking to our fellow Americans; surely many thousands of people, if not millions, would take a second look at Jesus if we did that. But we’re so selfish and narrow-minded that we can’t even imagine it. We could get up and move to a new neighborhood, refusing to let communities of violence and poverty suffer in isolation. But we don’t consider it to be our responsibility. Those are just my pet causes. There are a million things we could do. My bottom line is that in a time when the church treats the needy like lepers and refuses to enter into relationships of respect and friendship and reciprocity with the poor, I refuse to compound the problem by asking the government to join us in our indifference. If we’re determined to continue living in sin, the least we can do is let the government pick up our slack. Jesse Curtis

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