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RE: Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 017 - Loophole Five - A Pinch of Incense
When listening to Ann Barnhardt interviews I am always struck by the anger and violence in her voice and attitude. Although I can intellectually concur with some of her stands, she is not taking them from a place of love and compassion - and hence is not Christ-like and is no "Christian".
Other examples of her kind were the Spanish conquistadors and missionaries who baptized infants and then smashed their heads in so they would go straight to heaven (they said) and not be tainted by their heathen cultures.
It is more like she wants revenge upon a world that doesn't live up to her moral convictions and just cannot wait for God to exact the "justice" on the world that she knows (in her intellectual arrogance) that it most certainly deserves.
Ann is definitely a voice crying in the wilderness.
She can simultaneously hold the conviction that all past popes were infallible while the current pope is mostly wrong.
I'm sure she drives 98% of her readers away the first time. On the other hand, her mission field seems to be the 1% who need a good jolt out of their own complacency and the 1% who can see past her flamethrower to the often brilliant insights she is capable of articulating -- without any sugar coating.
But, lest we overlook the great planks in our own eyes,
there is one thing Jesus certainly won't say about her:
I include her thoughts in the current series because they are still valid concepts to be considered, despite how she packages them.