Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: muts@fysak.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Campus Crusade Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 04:33:18 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Louie Crew) writes: >>Not every religious organization needs to be so involved in politics. >>Other functions need to be met. If Campus Crusade is a cult is the >>BSU? Here at Georgia most Crusaders or Baptists. >Of course other functions need to be met; but any religion not involoved >in politics is not involved with polis (people) and thereby risks the >status of cults and other superstitions. Re-read the story of >the Final Judgment. Don't just take my word for it. Re-read the >prophets. But the groups we are talking about do not form a seperate religion, but just groups that emphasize *one* of the goals of christianity. I don't see what is wrong with that. They leave it further to the individual how and if they want to be involved in politics etc. Personally I keep thinking that the relationship between christianity and politics is a difficult and complicated one. You can see already in the new testament how wrong Jesus was understood and how many people politicized his ministry and turned away from Him as they were mistaken about His intentions. Also christianity itself cannot make any compromises, but in politics we have to. Therefore I think one can only derive points of views from the bible and then talk with others about these, but not really do politics as a christian. -- Peter Mutsaers email: muts@fys.ruu.nl Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht muts@fysak.fys.ruu.nl Princetonplein 5 tel: (+31)-(0)30-533880 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands