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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Growing up in Central Texas, I was exposed to one kind of Christianity. The kind that resulted in a teacher cramming my little sister's head on her desk and holding it down because she wouldn't bow her head for the mandatory school prayer to Jesus. The kind that had students ostrasizing me and calling me names because I wouldn't bow my head to the school prayer. The kind where ministers preached that God kills non-believers in brutal ways, a sermon that left me in terrified tears. The kind that had my four year old sister telling us we were all going to burn in hell if we were bad. The kind that told me that if we were poor, it was because we were not good people, so God was punishing us.
Then, thanks to my new stepfather, I was exposed to a different kind of Christianity. In his church, we learned tolerance and caring. We marched with the farmworkers up Congress Avenue in Austin, and held hands with black Baptists in the park to show our support for integration, even as others were murdering civil rights workers. We attended church events where poets read to us about justice and love, and we welcomed everyone into our church, no questions asked, no proofs of particular faith necessary, and no judgments made for anyone's past bad choices, just a desire to help them live a good life.
So there are different kinds of Christians, and Bush is allied with the first kind. I am glad Mr. Kuo found his heart with the second kind of Christian, like I did. I wish him the best, and appreciate that his willingness to describe his own journey.
I would like to say "who didn't see this coming?" But apparently, the Christian Right with their idol worship of George Bush didn't see this coming. And I knew when Bush was re-elected in 2004 that this would come back to bite him in the ass. He courted the Religious Right the way a slick player in a fancy car and nice threads seduces a woman that doesn't know better and then drops her after he gets what he came for. Now he won't return her phone calls. Poor thing. You thought he was different. But he wasn't. Just like all the others you've gone chasing. Christians have a long history of chasing the "gods" of power, wealth, and influence. Their God is a jealous and angry one which hates these affairs and promises destruction for the sin of idolatry. So no one who watches this should be surprised that these people are feeling about as used as a cheap whore. However, unlike the rest of us who might only have to live down the embarrassment of being fooled, the Christians also have to contend with their none-too-pleased Deity over this whole mess and pray that he'll be forgiving this time. For my part, I prayed that this day would come. Maybe now instead of calls for more worship of the "pastor-in-chief", nutbags like Falwell and Robertson will be calling on their followers to repent and humble themselves. That would be a welcome switch for all of us.
He bought into the politics and the evil and now wants to collect the financial rewards of the talk show circuit and book sales. What a jackoff. I personally am an atheist and a democrat and the 2 are mutually exclusive. I use to be an independent until the Republicans put their lips of the tits of the religious neocon right and proved how incompetent they are. Our country has been set back 2 generations by the actions of this administration and the duplicity of assholes like David Kuo. I hope he gets cancer again and wastes away the fuck that he is. EVERYONE knew that this was going on who had any intelligence. Don't attribute very much intelligence to this neocon base, they are waiting for the fucking rapture.
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