We've got every mainstream church here in Oz peddling this morally vaccuous, love everyone, don't judge, turn the other cheek, kiss kiss clap trap. These churches can't tell the difference between Mother Theresa and yassir arafat!
I'm not a christian but I have several evangelical fiends who assure me that christianity is not the whimpy, morally vaccuous religion that these mainstream ministers are trying to turn it into. I bloomin' hope so!
Christians certainly should not be cowardly or morally vacuous in the face of evil.
This is an excerpt from the life of a saint that is celebrated on this date every year. There are many thousands of similar examples throughout the history of the Church. This is the attitude true Chrisitans should have toward people trying to destroy their faith. Embracing and incorporating the enemy's beliefs is heretical.
(Please excuse the graphic nature of the following paragraph)
Saint Myron was a priest during the reign of Decius, when Antipater was ruler
of Achaia. On the day of our Lord's Nativity, Antipater entered the church to
seize the Christians and punish them. Saint Myron, kindled with holy zeal,
roundly
insulted Antipater, for which he was hung up and scraped, then cast
into a raging furnace, but was preserved unharmed. When Myron
refused to
worship the idols, Antipater commanded that strips be cut in the Saint's flesh
from his shoulders to his feet; the Saint took one of the strips of his flesh
and
flung it in the tyrant's face. He was beaten, and scraped again upon his
beaten flesh; then he was thrown to wild beasts, but when Antipater saw them
leaving off their fierce nature and protecting the Saint from harm, he was
overcome with unbearable shame and slew himself. The Saint was then sent to
Cyzicus, where the proconsul had him beheaded, about the year 250.
