It is not often that I commend the writings of a liberation theologian. And I'm not about to do so now, at least not in totality. But Native American liberationist Vive Deloria's thirtieth anniversary edition of God Is Red: A Native View of Religion has some important insights about the state of mainline Protestantism.
Deloria, in the midst of the typical revisionist proposals for Christian theology, offers the idea that Hugh Hefner should be pronounced "Protestant saint of the century." This is because, he suggests, of the ways in which the mainline bureaucracies have embraced "almost every kind of sexual activity as permissible 'if it is done with love.'"
On another note, Deloria takes on the political lobbying wings of the liberal Protestant denominations in this way: "They feel the only task remaining in the field of religion is to find a way to make their church relevant to the outside world. Most of them would take the Second Coming of Jesus as a personal affront indicating that God has lost confidence in their ability to solve problems."
Hugh Heffner? I just read where he has proclaimed himself to be a moral man. In this age of situational ethics, I guess anything is possible.
Let's hold on to what is real and not be swayed the the smooth words of false teachers.
Posted by: Jeff Bennett | August 14, 2005 at 10:05 PM
People should be even more embarrassed to take the man's thinking seriously than to admit to oggling the pictures in his magazine.
Posted by: Charles R. Williams | August 16, 2005 at 09:16 AM
Greetings to all! My name is Kenneth Samuelsen,and am a disabled trucker. For more than 20 years I helped keep our country running! Some one told me that Hugh Heffner was a Philanthropist, and I cannot find a way to E-mail him, so I thought I might post here.You see, I have just about run out of hope,and am now "clutching at straws"....I am "trapped" in my house, with no way out. I am in a wheel chair, and it is because I have an advanced case of Rheumatoid Arthritus, for which there IS no cure,and it IS terminal. I have already been in the hospital for liver failure,tho' I don't drink. I give myself two injections a week, one of them "Methotrexate", which is a chemotherapy drug.All I want is...just a van, any old van, so I can go outdoors, before I become completely bedridden. I don't care if it's a used, beat up old van, botto of the line van...I justwant to be able to do more than go to the edge of my wheelchair ramp.To be able to go to church. To feel the sunshine on my face!.
Please, Please, is there any of you, out there, who can help me? In any little way? My wife can no longer "help" me into her car,and we both know that what I have shortens your life, and affects every organ in the body. We both know that I will die sooner than her.The reason I have no money, is that the drugs for treating Rheumatoid Arthritus are horribly expensive, and while waiting the required six months to recieve benefits from Social Security,The meds took all my savings!.Please,Please,Please, will anybody help me? I KNOW there HAS to be,still,some good Christian people out there,who still believe in helping people!I don't know what to do anymore ,other than to beg like this. I live in Asheville, N.C., and it is an ecomicly depressed economy here,and there ARE no more organiztions to try. I can be reached at "[email protected]". God Bless you all, and thank you for your time, reading this! If anybody wants my 'phone number, to talk, just E-mail me.If you can't help me, God Bless you, anyway....maybe you know someone who will?
Thank you all...respectfully...kenneth samuelsen.
Posted by: Kenneth Samuelsen | January 26, 2006 at 06:43 AM