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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
As an evangelical minister, I cannot understand the disconnect among my fellow evangelicals. So many are rabidly anti-Democrat because of issues such as abortion and homosexuality but do not have any problem supporting the Iraq war which has been more than proven to be both unnecessary and unjust. It is true that power is seductive and those leading ministers on the far right are willing to overlook some sins in an effort to maintain their positions at the head table. Jesus had much to say about those who rush to take the best seats in the house. Christian conscience demands consistency of belief and action. Pro-life must include the already born as well as the unborn. Preemptive war is not pro-life. Torture is not pro-life. To see a truly Christian perspective, search out Jim Wallis and his Sojourners website. Mr. Kuo would do well to align with him.
"I think Christians have gotten to this point where politics have become a sort of God. "
Human chambers of unrecognized confusion
Prideful fear, failure awash with the bile of denial...
Confidence through the psychoses of certain righteousness...
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil,
For thou are with me,
And I, in your image are the evil embodiment
Of the angry childish omnipotence you claim,
Satans spawn left your side in paradise,
Sounds like a fun place,
Jimmy, Tammy, Jerrys, two,
The Robinson crusaders look snidely on you,
With friends like that in paradise
Satans party, sure sounds
nice.
They brainwash their children with this from birth…cerebral abortion…hypocrisy rules.
Bush uses Christians for political purposes? Unbelievable!!
It looks like these assholes in America are beginning to wake up. Christians need someone to believe in, since they are mostly empty souls. They don't have enough strength of character to hold themselves together, so they think Jesus will do it for them.
C'mon, idiots. Jesus won't do it, nor will George Bush.
Anyone who has ever been involved in a political campaign knows that a politician will say just about ANYTHING to get elected.
If it means being "born again", then's he's born again. What crap.
If you love Jesus, you walk in His steps. You don't start wars and you don't murder 650,000 people for laughs. You don't lie to the American people, you don't take their rights away, and you honor the law.
Bush, though, is like most Christians. He is a hypocrite.
Evangelical Christians aren't stupid. They know the Republican party uses them. But they use the party as well. As long as there's a two-party system, nothing will change. Evangelical Christians will never, ever vote for the party that supports abortion rights or gay rights. That leaves them two choices. Vote Republican or not vote at all. If they do the latter, those pro-choice, pro-gay lefties will get elected. It's all about choosing the option that least sucks. That's the choice we've all been forced to make thanks to these two-party system. So no matter what Republicans call people like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, their followers will still back the Republican candidates. This is why we need to get rid of political parties.
I am half-expecting a press release any day now announcing the entire rabid Right Wing is checking en masse into alcohol rehab. That's the newest all-purpose moral-transgression-remover, right?
Apply directly to reprehensible behavior and watch the need for reflection, repentance, and corrective action disappear!
How Sweet the Sound---
That saved a wretch like me!
John Newton, 1779
Thank you,
America needs another "Newton Junction"
CS, 2006
Let's take a look at the comments of some of the Christians posting here.
"As a Christian myself I am sad that political 'use' of the Christian right has made so many potential allies (people I want to work with on poverty or whatever) think that Christianity = hypocrisy."
-- Thinking
"I'm also a Christian, the politically liberal variety (yes, we do exist), and I hate how the actions and beliefs of right-wing Republican Christians have led to a false image of how the rest of us operate."
-- Moniwash
"He looked at me and said 'Now the Republicans...they're the Christians, right?' As both a lifelong Christian (although not an evangelical) and Democrat I was totally taken aback."
-- WEP
Gosh Thinking, Moniwash, and WEP. How could people believe those icky extremists represent *good* Christians, such as yourselves? Could it be because you let them? Could it be because the whiff of school prayer and faith-based initiatives and other theocratic nonsense was in the air and lulled you into silence and complicity?
No? Then where were the *good* Christian voices? Where were the howls of protest as the *bad* Christians slowly took over our country during the last 25 years? Why weren't *good* Christians picketing Jerry Falwell and shouting down Pat Robertson? Even the most extreme, hateful Christians were left to their own devices. I saw little if any dissent from *good*, or, if you prefer, *moderate* Christians. What I saw was a lot of smugness and glee as Christians of all stripes took control of our politics and lawmaking to force their beliefs on all of us.
Spare me the pleas that you were speaking out but the MSM wouldn't listen, or that your were bullied off the pulpit by the extremists. You sold your souls to a bunch of false prophets for power, and now you want to feign innocence and ignorance and dismay.
And finally, there's this additional howler from WEP...
"The abortion and gay rights issues are particular hot buttons for a lot of people and as a result a great many very well intentioned people end up getting hoodwinked into casting a vote for candidates..."
Which "well intentioned people" would those be, WEP, that respond in lockstep to the "hot buttons" of abortion and gay rights? The homophobes and anti-choicers? The ones who want to deny that ALL Americans should have full access to civil rights? The ones who were blowing up abortion clinics and gay bars and assassinating health care workers until 9/11 made terrorism unfashionable? Not the best group to point to when you're trying to make the case for *moderate* Christians.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
