he is there to forgive if people repent, but he is also is a just God and will punish sin no matter what
secular society wants to teach
Not exact matches
Because in a
secular and pluralistic
society the alternative is saying «This is right and that's wrong, whatever your culture tells you,» and no one
wants to say that out loud.
I think this
secular society provides counseling services that might help you, but of course only if you
wanted to be helped.
The church validated this kind of behavior for almost 2 thousand years, and now that
secular society has deemed it wrong, the church
wants to claim racism is the work of the devil.
As well as campaigning for a more
secular society, the BHA offers trained celebrants for weddings, births and funerals; for people who
want meaningful but religion-less rites of passage.
There is still sin though, its just like everything else the
secular people
want any hint of God out of
Society.
Such a clarion witness is intolerable to those who
want to weaponize medicine to impose
secular individualistic and utilitarian values on all of
society.
When the religious run things they force everyone to practice their brand of religion, when you have a
secular society everyone gets to pick their own religion and practice it as much or as little as they
want as long as they do not prevent someone else from doing the same.
What is key is that we understand that in a highly mobile and autonomous post-industrial
society, we need to find easy ways for people to find connection and relationship with other people whom they may never have met, the literal equivalent of the evangelical service that is conducted several times every day, where people can come and go as they
want, with child care and dry cleaning and whatever else liberals need to integrate that kind of regular activity into their everyday lives, and then we need to find ways to deepen those ties and connections, in ways that support and affirm
secular values and personal autonomy.