Do reglious people still persecute others?
Do reglious people still persecute others?
(originally written in 1997)
For several years our church had a Sunday afternoon broadcast on a local radio station. For almost 30 years, the station had been country-western station. On Sundays, they played gospel music and had preaching all day. In mid-1994 someone bought the station and decided to make it a full-time "Christian" station. Well, from the start we could tell that it was going to be more ecumenical than anything, because they played almost any music that called itself Christian, even rock-n-roll. They still took ads for events that were sponsored by beer companies. We also noticed that they wanted to allow anyone on the air who claimed to be called to preach, whether it be a woman, a Pentecostal, a Methodist, a "non-denominational," whatever. No matter whether you had one wife or forty-eight, as long as you paid the money, you could preach. They also emphasized that they were now "Love radio." Yes, tolerant, compromising, no-stance-on-anything, I-wouldn't-yell-snake-if-it-was-around-my-neck love!
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