Fads come and go. But when a fad overstays its welcome it becomes codified, institutionalized,and otherwise immortalized. Joe Carter at First Things has written a piece that points out how far evangelicals have taken some extra-biblical fads that should have died a natural death but were accepted as dogma. And may I say as an acknowledged evangelical, how correct he is in most of what he shares.
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Thanks for that link. Very thought-provoking. I have to agree with most of what he says!
It was a good list. Also, did you see the post just before it concerning my final thoughts on Nicaea?
Yep, I read it and was going to comment and got side-tracked with a phone call!
Good link Steve. There could be a similar list for certain Catholic practices.
Regarding # 8, I like how Joe Carter uses quotation marks in saying the young Catholic recited the "Lord's Prayer," which indeed it is. But we Catholics usually call it "The Our Father." We used to call it "The Pater Noster." But that was even before my time.
And # 10. Any Jack Chick comic found in any rest room anywhere should leave that room via the toilet. Not that I'm sensitive or anything. I just didn't like a grade school classmate of my daughter giving her a copy of Chick's "Death Cookie." Esepcially since it was a Catholic school with about 90% non-Catholic students. Have to blame the kid's parents for that one. No good news in that little piece of evangelizing literature. Why they had the kid in a Catholic school if they believed that Chick comic is the real question.
Stephen,
I am not a fan of the Roman Catholic church (as you can tell if you ever go to my blog), but Jack Chick I think does more damage to the Christian faith in general than he does any sort of Good. Somehow I got on his mailing list a several years back and out of curiosity I bought a sample tract pack with one of just about everything he had. I found only a few that I could safely feel able to put out, but I tossed them because they would lead people to his site.
I personally wrote Chick about the tone of his tracts, as well as some of the false or misleading information, and how what he was doing was going to cause more offense than bring people to the Kingdom. The reply I got basically told me to take a hike.
Most of the books on his site are rubbish and cultic in their promotion of KJVO and such like that, and his anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, anti-Masons, anti-JW stuff is more bigotry than anything else.
I whole-heartedly agree with you as to the destination of any Chick tract.
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