Pitts discounts power of faith to change world

Leonard Pitts Jr. is disappointed in the performance of contemporary Christians, as evidenced by last Sunday’s op-ed “Christians should be leading charge but often aren’t.”

Pitts said that, instead of leading the charge in support of “people who are suffering, hungry, exploited or simply denied some essential human right,” Christianity “always seems to be bringing up the rear.”

How does Pitts explain this failure of leadership? Simple. He suggested it is because many Christians interpret the Christian Gospel as “a narrow and exclusionary faith of narrow and exclusionary concerns: criminalize abortions, demonize gays and that’s pretty much it.” He cited no examples but he’s pretty sure we know who he’s talking about.

So the problem is that Christians simply aren’t nearly as politically correct as progressives such as Pitts believe they should be.

He believes they would be far less hypocritical if they just lived up to the liberal fantasy that a just and moral society is based on a “compassionate” government, not religious faith and certainly not Christian faith.

How else can one explain the unmitigated arrogance of someone who defines Christianity as Mr Pitts does and then lectures Christians about what they “should” do and believe?