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I'm right there with you, Jim M. Somehow the message of peace, love, and charity got turned into judgment, exclusion, and power-mongering. I've heard way too much use of the codeword "Christian" as denoting only the very narrow stripe of rabid Evangelical Protestantism, excluding Catholics and Protestant denominations who don't believe in a literal Apocalypse and Rapture. It's the religious equivalent of the right-wing hijacking of the word "patriotism".
I was watching the 2004 election results roll in with a couple of friends, one of whom was an atheist. When the news from Ohio and Florida started turning grim, the atheist wailed, "God is the problem!" I corrected her. "God is not the problem. McJesus is."
