Bob's Day

Bob is the Bob at the Onward, Forward, Toward blog, and today I will quote some good things he has pointed out, both at his blog and in the comments section on this blog.

In my post, More on How to Really Help the Poor, Bob made this comment concerning what I said about the new evangelicals regulating the poor instead of empowering them,

There is a fear of empowering people and the fear of that person doing greater things than the person who does the empowering.

I thought that was an excellent observation. Yes, we don't want the poor surpassing us, now do we?


And on Bob's blog, he has a recent post entitled, Time To Stop, Time To Leave. Here is a snippet from that post which is about all-night prayer vigils where he asks the question, "Do they really accomplish anything?"


....many of these all night prayer rallies consist of ....1 Chronicles 7:14 rallies where they confess everything even inventing sin in hopes of getting God to change his mind and do what they want......The real tragedy is that the more they cry out ‘change’, the more it has remained ‘the same’ as the west side of town still has a high crime rate and vice crimes are still active, their children still make C’s in school, and Roe vs. Wade is still not overturned.


Don't ya just love the part where he says, "getting God to change His mind and doing what they want? [empahsis mine]

Yes indeedy. Welcome to the current version of American Christianity.