I don't want to get in the habit of commenting on brothers and sisters in Christ who just don't get it, but this email I recently received from the American Family Association was so ridiculous as to be offensive:

This is your invitation to sponsor you church's participation in Silent Witness Week, to be observed during Holy Week April 1-8. Imagine this: Thousands of Christians wearing a very attractive lapel button which reads: Easter. He Lives!




St. Francis of Assisi is credited with saying, "Preach the Gospel at all times. Use words if necessary. Imagine meeting people in the grocery store, at school, at work and wherever you go while wearing the Easter. He Lives! button. The button makes the witness without speaking a word.

I'm sure that St. Francis would have heartily approved of people using his words to promote slacktivism-as-evangelism. That must be why he offered to throw himself into the fire to prove to the Saracens that Jesus was Lord instead of Muhammad.

And the worst part of it all is that when you actual look into joining their "Silent Witness" week… They are selling these buttons for a suggested donation of $1 each. That makes this a fundraiser for the AFA.

Sorry Mr. Wildmon, but I'm off your list. I thought your methods sketchy before, though at least your aims seemed more or less correct. But you've pretty much lost credibility with me now.