God in America PBS Tonight

Since the days when the Puritan "city on a hill" beckoned on the horizon of the New World, religious faith and belief have forged America’s ideals, molded its identity and shaped its sense of mission at home and abroad.
Beginning tonight on PBS, for the first time on television, God in America explores the tumultuous 400-year history of the intersection of religion and public life in America, from the first European settlements to the 2008 presidential election.
Check it out: http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/

A Compassion-less Christianity is an Oxymoron - Proclaimed by Morons

The "fire department did the right and Christian thing,” professed the American Family Association's Brian Fischer in the aftermath of the South Fulton Fire Department’s refusal to respond to the call of a fire at the residence of the Cranick family in Obion, TN.

I am sorry, sir, but your idea of a “right and Christian thing” has absolutely nothing in common with the Christian faith I have professed and taught for over 40 years, and is far off the mark of the faith Jesus of Nazareth professed and what the church has taught over the centuries.

A compassion-less Christianity is an oxymoron – claimed by obviously ignorant morons.

To try to say that the Kingdom of God is not based upon compassion is to totally misread or intentionally misstate the entire Christian message of the New Testament.

Reread again the parable of the Good Samaritan and explain again exactly how standing by watching a family in pain and DOING NOTHING when it is within your power to alleviate the pain is a “right and Christian thing.”

If you do nothing else, listen to what Jesus says about that