This is weird.
Via 22 Words.
This highlights some of the weird problems with this debate. You’ve got Russell Brand essentially, at one point, equating love with wanting to kiss someone on the mouth (for cheap laughs), and generally suggesting that tolerance and love trumps understanding what sin is – and you’ve got the Westboro Baptist guys who are trying to be loving by proclaiming sin in an incredibly unloving and insensitive way. Why they go to Leviticus, and not to the New Testament, Jesus, and the created order, is beyond me. Especially if they eat prawns.
Christianity’s branding problem out of Russell Brand’s mouth:
“I just feel, from what I’ve read of Jesus, and what I’ve had explained to me, is that his main message was tolerance, and love, and beauty, and acceptance.”
I thought his main message was:
“Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand”
So sadly, the Westboro Baptist guys are closer to the mark – Jesus’ main message was that he is Lord, and that access to God is through him…
Comments
Russell Brand’s theology might have been wrong and I agree the tone deteriorated as the interview went on, but I was impressed by his request to the crowd to be respectful of people who thought differently. (A courtesy never seen in the self-righteousness of the Westboro guys.)
I wanted him to ask them if Billy Graham was going to heaven – from what they were saying, it sounds like he’s in the same basket as Gandhi!
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