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Every person is precious : Comments
By Elenie Poulos, published 11/8/2008We have a deep and abiding responsibility to ensure that our society is based on principles of social justice and equity.
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A human rights charter, based upon the best of current day human wisdom, may help society in some aspects. But it will also be used to shut down conversation and opinion, which does not fit the charter. That will include attempts to silence conservative opinions and valid criticisms, regarding cultures, religions, and expressions of sexuality, to name a few current hot spots and semi-no go zones.
Ultimately, the charter may only serve to camouflage the gospel. People may even think that is what the gospel is - a push for human rights. Not so, Elaine. Not so.
"Every person is precious" What does that mean, Elaine? Do you mean, created in the image and likeness of God? That is a high nobility. Do you mean God loves the world, so in that sense we are precious? Do you also say that the heart of fallen humanity is desperately corrupt, thinking 'only evil continually? Some people very clearly become a danger to society and, humanly speaking, less 'precious' to those about them, bearing the pain and terror, that is for certain. Your article is, in short... clear as mud.
The only authentic bleeding heart theology, is that of Christ, who had to do something far more drastic than sign a legal charter, to rectify the evil of society.
I am a UCA member. And I disagree, with you, Elaine. I say 'No' to the Charter. But then, the 'human wisdom' approach has the numbers in the UCA. So that is why you get to write such unhelpful material, and we who seek to preach the cross, as the power to transform society - have to bear with your unhelpful confusion. And yet again, we bemoan our being tied, ecclesially, to 'another gospel'.
Thanks to others who, for various reasons, have also criticised Elaine's opinion!