With evangelists like these...
A London street evangelist, Philip Howard, who ended up in court for shouting at passers-by about their eternal destination was cleared today. Full story here.As a born-again libertarian, I'm profoundly glad that Bro Philip was not imprisoned for this, as it would have been a major loss to free-speech (and Bro Philip's activities probably will be illegal in the future if the present UK government's bill on incitement to religious hatred gets through parliament).
However, I really wish the Lord could arrange to rapture Bro Philip early. With 'evangelists' like this, I think I might investigate whether there's more mileage in preaching Bad News.
posted by Paul Roberts @ 6/16/2005 06:22:00 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks Paul. I am advising evangelists to tone down their messages and will be doing so myself.
Hi Paul
Appreciate the note. I have a different angle to offer on the incitement to religious hatred bill.
If you can indulge me I started my own blog off in March 2005 with two related posts:
1). Incitement to Religious Hatred
2). European Human Rights & Evangelicals.
I realise that the bill has not proceeded through the House of Lords. So some of my comments may be "dated". I ralise that there may be difficulties with the legislation. However I also feel that - looking at the issue from the Antipodes - there may be too much anxiety in church circles that may cloud some issues too.
However, I wonder if some background is missing in the debate on the bill which ironically is theological in nature.
Anyway, here are the links to my blogs
http://circleofpneuma.blogspot.com/2005/03/incitement-to-religious-hatred-and-uk.html
http://circleofpneuma.blogspot.com/2005/03/european-human-rights-and-evangelicals.html
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