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11:26 AM - The Cult of Irresistible Influence Today's Oklahoman carried an article detailing an event co-sponsored by the Oklahoma Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives, the Cornerstone Assistance Network, and the Christian Leadership Foundation. Now, I actively support efforts to "focus Christian...compassion on the unmet needs of our community" and "make a difference in other peoples' lives, helping them to become and successfully sustain independent lifestyles." These are doubtlessly worthy and admirable goals. Churches should indeed focus more on Jesus' commands to aid the poor and less on building megachurches in isolated, insulated, means-tested white-flight communities (such as my own). It should give clergy pause, however, to note that this event is being coordinated by an arm of the state government and an organization which they have given a monopoly over the process of funnelling federal tax monies into church coffers. As the old saying goes, "With the King's coin comes the King." Moreover, it should give everyone pause that the state government is exclusively favoring a particular faith community (guess which one!) in the course of their efforts to further integrate church and state. Did not the Father of the Constitution warn us of such collusion? Tags: (
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