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Orphangelical

“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Every saint has a past, every sinner a future.”

Oscar Wilde

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They fail to alter their views to fit the facts. Instead, they alter facts to fit their views.

Dr Who.

What would it take?

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What would it take to change your mind?

It’s a question that cuts both ways.

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As an Orphangelical, I believe that broad swathes of Evangelical faith have been lead away from the essence of Christianity. Love.

Oh! How false doctrine masquerades as truth! Politics from the Pulpit promoting selfishness – prosperity doctrine, science denial, anti-intellectualism, persecution complex, militancy and confrontationalism… crowd out real meaning.

Followers absorbed looking at their own desires are numb to the pain others endure. And worse having no satisfaction of those worldly lusts, evolve bitterness, anger and resentment. These inexorably expose as hate, blaming and tribalism.

“Love is all you need.”

And if love is real? Selfishness melts naturally away. It can’t survive the heat of real Godly passion. Whereas hate is icy cold, premeditated “murder in the heart.”

It was the experience of encountering selfless unconditional love that changed my mind.

So, if you ask me, to change minds takes an encounter. It requires reckoning.

Unfortunately for activists, people are powerless to propel others to mind-changing experience. Arguing will never convince people to abandon hate for love.

For it to be real it happens quietly, often times in the darkness of being alone, desperate and deprived of comfort.

“You don’t know He is all you need, until He is all you have.”