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• Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:07 PM

  Alas poor Alacrity his religion does not unite it divides...jt

  @Alacrity - The media is afraid of the wrong things. And the wrong people.

  "In His time, Jesus was labeled a freak. A fanatic. A looney. His message was incredibly radical. (And it still is.) It's incredulous that Palin is being labeled a freak for being a follower of Jesus, while Obama is being praised and likened to Jesus, since Jesus was now, apparently, also a "community organizer". The fact is: Jesus was anything but a community organizer. Jesus preached the Gospel and revealed Himself as the only true way to God. The Gospel does not unify. It divides. It separates the believers from the non-believers of Christ."

  Apart from the fact that this is an incredibly sad definition of "Christianity" as an ugly cult, it does make me very glad that I am not a Christian. I had hoped to hear some Christians take issue with this pathetic view of their religion. I know that it's based in Scripture, but that's a big book, is that really the passage upon which a decent person would want to focus their faith? "the only true way to God..." Humbug. That view makes Christianity a joke played upon the ignorant. I'd suggest this person spend some serious time in China, India or Africa and meet some of the wise and wonderful human beings in this world who grew that way without the help or hindrance of Christianity. This is a dim and narrow view of a very large and beautiful world - a world-view that I do not want a leader of my country to share. If, in fact, Sarah Palin believes the dogma stated by this person, I submit that she is unfit for public office in a pluralistic society. I also submit that those who do hold this view have no interest in protecting our pluralistic society; they do seek to advance theocracy, just like the Taliban.

  I respectfully request that some journalist read this description of "Christianity' to Governor Palin and ask that she respond to it with her views.

  Joey Tranchina

  PS. @Alacrity - "How has it come to this in America — that Christianity is increasingly under such extreme attacks? "

  There is a clinical description for that sort of delusion. Because someone finds something ugly and repulsive does not mean that they attack it, merely that one tries not to step in it or smell it. Aversion is not the same as attack.

  —JoeyTranchina Read JoeyTranchina's other letters
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