Via David Codrea, this pitiful understanding of theology and life.
Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy says it’s time to find strangers and “shine their shoes” to combat racism in the U.S.
The Christian businessman, long reviled by LGBT activists for his support of the traditional definition of marriage, suggested the idea while weighing in on Black Lives Matter protests across the nation.
He made the remarks during a June 14 panel at Passion City Church in Atlanta.
“I invite folks just to put some words to action here and if we need to find somebody that needs to have their shoes shined, we need to just go right on over and shine their shoes,” Mr. Cathy told Christian rapper Lecrae and Passion City Founder Louie Giglio.
“Whether they got tennis shoes on or not — maybe they got sandals on — it really doesn’t matter,” he continued. “But there’s a time in which we need to have some personal action here. Maybe we need to give them a huge too. … I bought about 1,500 of these [shoeshine brushes] and I gave them to all our Chick-Fil-A operators and staff a number of years ago. So any expressions of a contrite heart, of a sense of humility, a sense of shame, a sense of embarrassment begat with an apologetic heart — I think that’s what our world needs to hear today.”
The 70-minute discussion also featured Mr. Cathy urging Americans not to “let this moment pass” or to “point fingers” at looters.
“[We had] about a dozen Chick-fil-A restaurants vandalized in the last week, but my plea would be for the white people, rather than point fingers at that kind of criminal effort, would be to see the level of frustration and exasperation and almost the sense of hopelessness that exists on some of those activists within the African-American community,” he said.
First of all, I would like to take this chance, unequivocally, to point my finger at looters. That’s called stealing, and it violates the eighth commandment. The Biblical punishment for that is to become an indentured servant to the offended victim until the debt is paid in multiples.
Now that’s done, let’s reiterate what we’ve discussed before concerning this mistaken notion of collective sin.
” … the Biblical doctrine is, as Deuteronomy 24:16 makes clear, one of individual responsibility … guilt cannot be shifted to others or passed on to the people around a man. Guilt is non-transferable; a disposition or nature can be inherited, but not guilt.”
Finally, my grandfather barely had an elementary school education. He fought in WWI, and upon discharge went to work for the railroad. He broke his back while working, and didn’t miss a day of work because he had a family to support.
His only son and my father, worked hard all of his life to provide for me and my siblings. The hard work over two generations enabled me to go to school, where I had to work hard to become an engineer. To be sure, my life is one that exemplifies grace, without which I’m sure I would live in a ditch somewhere. So I don’t need a sermon from anyone on the effects of grace in my life.
But God uses secondary causes too, and lack of work, slothfulness, is also a sin. I am not the recipient of any sort of privilege, and I won’t be treated that way by the morally preening but ignorant Dan Cathy, any politician, or any wealth redistributionist.
Those vacuous, second grader level sermonetes by rich people bore me.