You have a point with boycott being the white glove slapped across the
face. It is , for me anyway, difficult to knowingly support something that
is blatantly against Christian values though. We can take the impositions
to secular folks from the prayers in school to our trust in God on our
money. when and where does it stop being an imposition to those who don't
share the same values we founded our country on? Somewhere there needs to
be a point of not letting our beliefs be target practice for any hired gun
with an agenda. But I guess we know how things will go towards the end
anyway, it won't be easy. The problem with going too far down the road of
not impositioning folks is then compromise will set in, and they just see
us a weakling little Christians and I don't think that looks to attractive
for them to jump across the line either. Like I say, even if boycotts were
to make their point and it was the answer, we are to disorganized to make
a good crack at it anyway so it is really a moot topic.
Brad
on 05:36 AM 11/27/2006, Kathy Du Bois said:
Well, and that's an interesting point: is it right to impose Christian
standards on a secular company? Their god definitely is money and ours
isn't. Our whole world view is different. So, you force them not to do
something or not to support something because the Christians don't like
it. They want your money, so they might comply, but that doesn't change
their heart. In fact, it might even make them ore bitter toward
Christians because, all they see is the boycott. they don't understand
the heart difference.
Kathy
At 12:45 AM 11/26/2006, you wrote:
Regarding boycotts since I'm on a one post roll here. I do think they are
good to send a message, if they can be organized to do so. However, I
wonder how many Christians might work there trying to affect the company
inside or just plain need a job? How many other companies also are not
Christian based? Sony? Proctor and Gamble? maybe the canned food company
you eat everyday, the farmer, who knows when and where it can end. We can
drive ourselves crazy with it, an yet if we don't ever stand up at all to
make a stand against those we know are blatantly dead set against
Christian values, how can we stop them. Boycotts can be good, but
they need organization. Unfortunately our country has proven it has
difficulty getting together to make a difference as 60% of our country
men and women did not vote this past election.So they are good to show a
disapproval, but are they an affective method in today's society of
"taking care of #1" attitude.
Brad
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