Trinidad
Just returned from a week in Trinidad...and the thing that amazes me most is how diverse spiritually they are without being divisive.
1/3 of the country is Christian, 1/3 Muslim, and 1/3 Hindu...and they all get along splendidly. The company I work with down there has a mix of all, some of whom are VERY passionate about their faith, yet all coexist and work well together...in fact challenge each other some times and banter back and forth about faith.
An interesting quote...from the warehouse man who is 110% Muslim (visual: dresses every day in long robe, matching cleric hat, long grey beard, wife joins him for lunch dressed in all black, you can only see her eyes)..."Those Muslims killing everyone over there in the desert, they are not showing the love that our faith teaches."
The whole experience moves me more toward Calvinist...we are called to evangelize, but God needs to call the recipient to the message, without God's calling of the listener, we are just putting up walls. That being said, I'm still flushing out evangelism and living in a spirit of peace with your brother.
posted by Hollywood at 3:22 AM
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The T&T thing works because of the comparatively small population. For example, the socialized medicine thing works in Holland because the entire nation is 18 million people. If you had to do that across the USA, well, logistics makes it extremely difficult to replicate.
So, in a nation that small with a central American economy and lifestyle in which it is necessary to get along to make it work, well, that's why it does.
Oversimplified, but definitely part of the equation.
And, I can assure you of this: Calvinism has some aspects of the natural applications that make me extremely wary of it (not even mentioning it's chief weaknesses as a theology, mind you). This recent re-birth of Calvinism & reformed theology will have dangerous repercussions within the church walls as well as outside them. Trust me on that.
5:54 AM
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