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time and ignorance are the enemies

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- By Pastor David W. Johnson

 

 

Editor’s Note:    David W. Johnson, serves as Pastor of the Overland Baptist Church in Overland, Missouri.  He wrote this editorial relative to the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, which will appear as AMENDMENT 2 on the Missouri ballot in November, 2006.  Reverend Johnson is a member of the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures.

 

 

August 10, 2006

 

I am a Baptist pastor.  Lately, my mailbox at the church office has been flooded with anti-stem cell propaganda from Missouri Right to Life, the Missouri Baptist Convention and other religious right organizations that want to enlist my "help" in turning my church into a grass-roots political network to "get out the vote."  They have sent me Sunday bulletin inserts, sermon notes and all sorts of materials to "inform" my congregation.


I've got news for these guys, though.  I know how to read scripture and newspapers.  I'm not a mindless zombie incapable of independent thought and who blindly follows denominational hierarchy.  I've given this matter plenty of study, and all the material I have seen in my mailbox thus far is deceitful.  I would not use any of it in my church. Some alleges that voting yes on the stem cell referendum will legalize the "cloning of human-animal hybrids" and legalize the "surgical harvesting of fetal body parts."  It's mean-spirited, desperate and inflammatory.  Such allegations are so over the top that I don't know how any rational Christian could swallow them.  But many apparently do.  Such behavior doesn't say much for spiritual discernment within the church.


I am deeply disturbed that there are apparently many pastors who intentionally spread this hateful propaganda to their flocks while invoking the name of Christ, thus turning the church of Jesus Christ into a political slime machine.

 

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