Angelina Jolie: More Christian than Dove World Outreach Hatechurch
I have many Christian friends who tell me that Christianity is all about love and caring, forgiveness and self sacrifice - this in turn makes me scratch my head when I see the religious bile brigade out hating gays, liberals, or other groups in the name of God.
The Dove World Outreach “Church” ( I think of them as a hatechurch) is but the most recent example, another is the strange political alliance between fundamentalist social conservative Christians who also hate all muslims so much that they are also willing to partner with extremist Far right neo Fascists and neo confederates. None of the bile and hate these groups create seems very Christian - instead it’s deceitful and divisive. They lie to drive wedges into our political discourse and parties, the latest example of their actions being the big split in the GOP.
Then I look at someone whom the social conservatives love but hate — Angelina Jolie, and see her as a better example of Christianity than Dove World Outreach. My advice to Christians: if you really want to see your faith grow, then recruit more people like Angelina, and fewer like the pastor at Dove World outreach.
Angelina Jolie visited with displaced women Tuesday after arriving in Pakistan on Sunday to meet with victims of flooding and to highlight the need for help, as part of her United National High Commissioner for Refugees work. Millions of people have been affected by the July floods. “People have lost everything: their homes, their belongings, their crops and cattle, and their livelihoods,” she said in a release. “Long after the cameras have gone, people will be struggling to rebuild their lives.”
Jolie’s visit is her fourth to Pakistan since becoming a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2001. She last visited in November 2005 following the earthquake in northern Pakistan.
Some of the most desperate people on the planet are trying to cope with the flooding in Pakistan, and some of our worst enemies are hiding there. Some of their sympathizers are also are flood victims, and the various terror orgs are trying to capitalize on the flooding to raise funds. Angelina has both the courage and the character to set great example and to go in harm’s way to love even some of our enemies, and Dove World Outreach has the cowardice to stay safe in the US and cravenly demonstrate their hate by childishly burning books. Which is truly the best example?
Also take note that this article easily could have been titled “Angelina Jolie, More Christian than [Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, etc. etc. etc. etc.]