Ecclesiastical rabblerouser Jim Wallis went on a fast in protest over cuts to social programs in the Congressional budget.
Too bad he didn't starve to death.
That's so harsh, leftists will snap.
It must be pointed out that Wallis pulls these kinds of stunts on his own.
No vile conservatives withheld or denied him access to food.
Interestingly, in light of Wallis' acceptance of abortion and gay unions
hidden behind verbal obfuscations to deceive all but the most
discerning, apparently fasting might be one of the few Biblical
practices that he takes seriously.
However, in his zeal to show how superspiritual he is, it seems Wallis
can't even engage in this practice in an appropriately Biblical manner.
According to Matthew 6:16-18, aren't you supposed to comport yourself in
such a way that no one else other than God is supposed to know that you
are conducting a fast?
Wallis does not seem to so much utilize fasts as a way to draw closer to
God but rather as a way to express his profound hatred of the American
way of life and the free market system.
In his 3/13/11 Sojomail Newsletter, Wallis lamented, “I have been
astounded how food is everywhere in our culture...America is obese
because of the assault of food --- an idolatry made of something that
was meant to both sustain us and bring community in our social
relations.”
In other words, Wallis does not so much want you to make your own free
decision to join him in this form of physicalized prayer.
Ideally, what Wallis longs to see is a deprivation imposed from above
upon those in the despised “middling orders” unable to rise to the level
of mystic contemplation preferred by Wallis and his gnostic elites.
By Frederick Meekins