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• Monday, September 15, 2008 05:30 AM

  Cnrist must be weeping

  I was baptized a Roman Catholic and I remain Catholic to my core, although the Vatican might argue about the Roman part.

  To me there is only one Christian message and one Christian commandment: Love.

  Christ preached that all the prophesies and scripture were fonded on love. A generation before Christ, Rabbi Hillel propounded the Golden Rule and stated that everything else is commentary.

  As good hearted as many evangelicals are, their political agenda is anti-Christ and anti-Love. So much of Evangelical Christianity is based upon stilted, strained reading of scripture by 19th century zealots who powers of reasoning and deduction were seriously defective. They were literally the false prophets in sheep's clothing the Bible warned us against.

  The successful mega-church evangelicals with their opulent palaces contrast with Christ's praise of John the Baptist who dressed in loin cloth and ate berries from bushes: "What did you go out to the desert to see, a man dressed in fine clothing?"

  The concept that a heart-beat away from the presidency would be a person who believes that man walked with the dinosaurs is appalling. The denial of science by the evangelicals is already having a dreadful impact on the education of the next generation of American scientists.

  Jefferson wrote: "When I read that God is just, I weep for my country." For the abuse of His name by the right wing extremists, I suspect the Christ weeps too.

  http:johnklotz.blogspot.com

  —NewYorkLawyer Read NewYorkLawyer's other letters
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