This evening as Melissa and I were walking, I noticed a minivan with an eye-catching window decal.
It said:
Pro Life
Pro Gun
I don't know what to make of this.
Is "Pro God" meant to equal "believer" or "Christian" or "follower of Christ"?
Seems like it is at least one step removed from this.
It's like saying, "I am one of God's biggest fans."
It definitely seems to put faith on the same level as political beliefs - holding propositional statements as convictions and as a means of identifying which group you belong to.
This is a form of idolatry, as that term is explained by author and researcher James Fowler:
"Real idolatry, in the Jewish and Christian traditions, does not have to do with the worship of statues or pagan altars. Idolatry is rather the profoundly serious business of committing oneself or betting one's life on finite centers of value and power as the source of one's (or one's group's) confirmation of worth and meaning, and as the guarantor of survival with quality." - James Fowler, Stages of Faith (p.18)
And every idolater who has ever lived believes he has God all figured out.
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