Misfires in the Tolerance Wars
Separating church and state now means separating belief and action.
By Ted Olsen | posted 3/01/2004 12:00AM
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At her trial for stealing more than $8 million from her London banker bosses, Joyti De-Laurey was confronted with her own prayer letters asking God for protection. "Dear God, I need one more helping of what's mine upon my return, and then I must cut down and cease in time all the plundering," she wrote. "Please ensure my job is safe and my integrity is unquestioned on my return."
Like many of us, De-Laurey understood that God is active in our lives. But when religious secularism makes us forget his total sovereignty, we become more than fools; we become criminals.
Ted Olsen is online managing editor of Christianity Today.
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This column appeared in the magazine's March print issue as the second entry of "Weblog in Print," CT's effort to duplicate on paper our popular online Weblog feature. The first entry, "A Theoblogical Revolution," appeared in the January 2004 issue (and was posted online January 16). Weblog revisited that column last week in an entry titled, "New Kids on the Blog."
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