I can't seem to find the "What We Believe" page or the verse that the Axis of Logic article references. I'm going to suspect OSU took them down because they were being pointed out. However, I found some other pieces on the founder's page that bother me.
Apparently the group was spurred out of the fellowship that developed around the CEO's son's fight and loss to cancer. That's all well and good, and understandable, but to actually write this:
His life proves, like many heroes in our military, that sometimes people have to die so that others may live.
Whether you believe that sentiment or not, writing it about a 3 year old boy? Far from what I'd call kosher behavior really. But what bothers me more is further down the page. In the CEO's bio near the bottom in the section addressed to the "Military Churched & Un-Churched" he quotes the following:
Rev. 12:11 “…they overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony."
If you look that passage up for the full text you find out it's about the violent casting down of the dragon that represents Satan in chapter 12 of Revelations... Now personally I'm not sure whether to be more annoyed/worried that this is yet another example of quoting pieces of biblical text out of context for one's personal purposes, or worse yet that he's actually alluding to Armageddon-esqu fighting as described in that text.
These people really are the scary kind of nuts. My mother's conservative Presbyterian church that I grew up in actually politely asked a small group that was heavily into the Revelations extremism to leave their congregation because they didn't feel the group held with traditional Christian values. I don't consider myself Presbyterian anymore, haven't for a few years, but I can't help but feel proud of them for that, given the increasingly accepted prevalence these Revelationist attitudes have been having.
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Date: 2008-01-02 07:06 pm (UTC)Apparently the group was spurred out of the fellowship that developed around the CEO's son's fight and loss to cancer. That's all well and good, and understandable, but to actually write this:
His life proves, like many heroes in our military, that sometimes people have to die so that others may live.
Whether you believe that sentiment or not, writing it about a 3 year old boy? Far from what I'd call kosher behavior really. But what bothers me more is further down the page. In the CEO's bio near the bottom in the section addressed to the "Military Churched & Un-Churched" he quotes the following:
Rev. 12:11 “…they overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony."
If you look that passage up for the full text you find out it's about the violent casting down of the dragon that represents Satan in chapter 12 of Revelations... Now personally I'm not sure whether to be more annoyed/worried that this is yet another example of quoting pieces of biblical text out of context for one's personal purposes, or worse yet that he's actually alluding to Armageddon-esqu fighting as described in that text.
These people really are the scary kind of nuts. My mother's conservative Presbyterian church that I grew up in actually politely asked a small group that was heavily into the Revelations extremism to leave their congregation because they didn't feel the group held with traditional Christian values. I don't consider myself Presbyterian anymore, haven't for a few years, but I can't help but feel proud of them for that, given the increasingly accepted prevalence these Revelationist attitudes have been having.
Edit - fixed a couple typos I missed