YeKengalé

There certainly is a place for intolerance. The theological idea representative of that place is called ‘hell’….in as much as heaven is synonymous with perfect acceptance, the embrace of an eternal Father.

My only issue with a strict evangelical soteriology is how the boundaries are drawn …. and every religious sect claims scriptural authority for its particular exegetical tradition…and in the rigid Fundamentalism characteristic of much of Caribbean Christianity, most believers are blissfully unaware of the historical contexts of their doctrines, living for the most part in a denominational cocoon of Christianity, unable to healthily conceive of what we all (mostly ignorantly) call the ‘kingdom of God’. In effect we have reduced God’s dominion to our church circles, doctrinal positions, thought systems and practices.

I am so thoroughly nauseated by all this, that I for one earnestly desire the death of what we call in the West ‘Religious Freedom’, since it has come to mean license to pervert religion with impunity and with state backative. The corruption of Christianity began with state endorsement, and its purging has always been attended by state persecution. Between a pure or free Christianity, I much prefer the former.

Christian tares love the comingling of church and state, clinging to the prop of Daniel’s statue where their true treasure lies. The living growing stone that destroys and displaces human governments (with leaven not law …. with what my colleague calls ‘the word become flesh not the word become text) is too radical to embrace, which is why the church for centuries has replaced ‘thy kingdom come’ with ‘the sweet bye and bye’, which by definition does not interfere with the powers on earth that be.