‘Born-again’
Sir,— “Born-again George Bush wooing the God squad,” says a heading in “The Press.” What disrepute “born-again” has fallen into. Basically, it means “become a Christian,” without sectarian connotations; but it has been used for flag-waving or clubbing your opponent, or else to designate a stream of Christianity which sees the plans of the Almighty and of the American State Department as nearly synonymous, with the world ending by 1999, in a nuclear holocaust from which the born-again are rescued but which they did nothing to prevent, but welcomed
as the threshold for the new heaven and the new earth. This Bible-based interpretation ignores differences between prophecy and apocalyptic, prediction and allegory. While this is but one stream of Christian thinking, it would be foolish to dismiss the moral alarm of many in Western society by placing them in the Moral Majority camp. Christianity is much more complex. — Yours, etc., A. W. MCNAMARA. February 11, 1986.
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Press, 13 February 1986, Page 20
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157‘Born-again’ Press, 13 February 1986, Page 20
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