This climate at the Colorado Academy seems to be a contradiction (Article in the Washington Post, Wednesday, May 4th). The gist is that a second major investigation is underway at the academy. The first was in 2003 when dozens of former women cadets came forward saying they had been sexually assaulted at the academy. This latest investigation involves allegations that its faculty and staff have pressured cadets to convert to evangelical Christianity; what a contradiction.

First of all. If genuine conversion to Christianity occurs it should be welcomed as it would have been unnecessary to have an overhaul of its policies toward women. Genuine Christians know that women are to be honored and are precious; being created in God’s image.

Second, I’m sure the women would have preferred to be pressured to follow Christ instead of being pressured to have sex. With that said, pressure never results in someone genuinely following Christ. All who follow Him do it willingly. Christ is the foundation for truth and the standard for how men and women should live their lives.

The article goes on to quote Michael L. Weinstein, a White House attorney in the Reagan administration: ”The place is being held hostage in the vise grip by evangelical Christians, and people are terrified to come forward…”

I’m confident that genuine evangelical Christians were not committing the rapes at the academy. If that had been the case the media would have enjoyed running that article. Claims to be Christian are not sufficient to please God; actions are required. Claims only fool unbelievers, as they don’t understand what genuine Christianity requires.

As for the Separation of State issue. It is impossible to separate a person from who they are. To require a genuine Christian to deny God’s impact on his/her life is to make them liars. This is the very thing that we born again Christians; were liberated from. We are no longer posers; we have shed Shakespeare’s mask. The world is no longer a stage for us, we are seeing ourselves and others as they really are, either:

• sinners saved by grace or
• sinners living in rebellion against God’s loving call

The article also revealed that a report was issued stating that cadets that refused to go to chapel were organized into a “Heathen Flight” and marched back to their dorms; and that the Air Force ”Chaplain of the Year” urged cadets to proselytize among their classmates or ”burn in the fires of hell.”

If this is the case it is clearly inappropriate and these individuals are not genuine Christians

Just because a person talks the talk
doesn’t mean he has a Christlike walk.

The facts remain though. There is a God and we are, individually, held accountable for our personal sin. Yes, if we choose to live without God, we will spend eternity separated from God after we die, in a place the Bible calls hell. We must come to God, His way.

Whosoever wants to, can and will be saved through Jesus Christ

Why would you want to be caught dead, in a relationship you didn’t want when you were alive? What a contradiction.

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