How Sweet the Sound---

That saved a wretch like me!

John Newton, 1779

Thank you,

America needs another "Newton Junction"

CS, 2006

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!

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.

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.

"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.

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 it was CNN that had some follow-up interviews at a right-wing Christian conference about the book and the Foley scandal and most of the people there said that they don't vote based on the values or character of the politicians, but instead they vote on if that politician will support their issues. Now didn't the Democrats gets raked over the coals post-Monica about still supporting Clinton because of his values (or lack thereof) and didn't we get fed the same line in '04 and '08. We heard "news story" after "news story" about Bush's values and Gore/Kerry's lack of them and how the elections weren't about issues, but about values. Turns out that the self righteous Christian right is full of hypocrites. I guess I can't really be surprised can I?

Pity

Judgement

umm truth,honor?

the conservatives are all over the wrong side of this issue...

Bahahahahahahah

"Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, told the Washington Post that he "felt sorry" for Kuo. "Once you do something like this," said Perkins, "you get your 15 minutes in the spotlight, but then after that nobody will touch you."

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Memoirs like this one are becoming a new sort of genre affiliated with the Bush administration: the 'I was just an innocent conservative who didn't realize the den of wolves I was walking into' book. Frankly, I find these books nauseating, even though I'm happy to see them if and when they damage the Bush administration politically.

Why do I find them nauseating? Because they are, in effect, a classic form of non-apology apology. They make the claim that it was not possible from the outside to see the administration for the pack of cynical wolves they are, when this is indeed plain as the nose on your face to a person with the leisure to peruse the paper once a day. In effect, I'm supposed to believe that a Christian man with connections climbs up the GOP's stinky political ladder without noting the corruption along the way? And then decide that his climb down is honorable, when it involves so little apparent sense of his own culpability?

It bothers me when people who rallied behind the war in '03 feel no sense of shame in writing critiques of the war today. Frankly, we are owed not confessions and kiss-and-tell memoirs, but public acts of repentance: because I just don't believe that you didn't know; I think you let yourself be seduced by power and money and appearance on TV, and now are choosing to flee a sinking ship.

The Christian thing to do would not to engage in the dog-and-pony show of warning the Christianist right that it is being played by frauds; the Christianist right surely knows that; in effect all this does is offer another fig leaf to hide guilt under as it turns out--low and behold--that politics based on fear, deception, and hate turn out to be dangerous to the nation and its soul. What a surprise!

Repent, rather than write memoirs!