What are Red Letter Christians?

From Joe Farah at WorldNet Daily:


There's a movement afoot to seduce evangelical Christians into anti-biblical, socialist, tyrannical politics – the kind currently energizing Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

I know this because I just read a new book by the self-proclaimed "godfather" of the movement – Tony Campolo. Yeah, you remember him as Bill Clinton's spiritual guru.

The book is a manifesto of sorts called "Red Letter Christians." Red Letter Christians are those, we learn in Campolo's book, who heed the words spoken by Jesus and recorded in the New Testament – sometimes in red letters.

I'll summarize the book for you: Christians have been paying enough attention to issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, homosexual indoctrination in schools, etc. But, says Campolo, they need to start paying attention to what the Bible teaches to do about poverty, the environment, global warming and social injustice. And, in response, we have to empower government through political activism to shoulder our biblical responsibilities.

It's a stunning treatise – breathtaking in either its naiveté or self-indulgent and willful corruption of clear biblical principles.

Read the rest here.
See more on Tony Campolo's aberrant liberal "theology" and it's embrace by The New Baptist Covenant.