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As a registered Republican and a nominal trinitarian Christian (many have questioned this, but that's their problem), I find it remarkable that anyone is surprised that evangelicals have found it true that lying down with dogs, one will often get up with fleas. I also find it very telling that Christians were, as Kuo states, so enamored of power as to be "seduced" by the Bush administration. The fact is these people who have been pouring on the Cross wrapped in the Flag for the past few years are not representative of Christianity any more than George W. Bush is representative of Republicanism. Both have been guilty of the most hideous failures of character and principle and both must now pay, in various ways, for their perversities.
"Seduced" is too kind a word. When a guy sees a hooker on a street corner and decides he's going to buy what she's selling because he wants it that badly, he hasn't been seduced. He's been out whoring. So have evangelicals who, by definition can't leave anyone alone, can't not mind the business of everyone with whom they come into contact, and so were properly attracted to Bush and his utter disregard for all those things sane people hold most sacred. Now they are all in a boat together, and a big mother storm is whipping up. Can't call on Jesus to get out of this one, boys and girls. You built it, you climb it. You demand we worship a President, even a sane and intelligent one, let alone the lunatic we have now, and you've sold your soul for a quickie that will cost you for the rest of your natural lives.
Wish I could help, but I'm too busy enjoying the real "end times." Hey gang, it's The Rupture!
