Friday, August 17, 2007
Using God for Greed...
Tonight on PBS, Bill Moyers will air his analysis of the Karl Rove resignation. You can see a short video clip here.
I think the worst part about the Rove/Bush team is that so many well meaning Christians have been mislead. I know many Christians that honestly feel they are doing the will of God by supporting the Republican party for the past 3 decades. I'm as guilty as anyone for having once fallen for the shell game. At some point you have to go deeper than asking a candidate to proclaim his or her faith. Eventually you have to take their policies and compare them with Jesus and see how they measure up. I wish their were more unbiased media choices easily accessible to Christians. I fault progressives just as much as conservatives because progressives have a history of serving their quality political criticism with a healthy side dish of anti-religious rhetoric. The result has been polarization, widespread religious illiteracy, and plenty of anger. I hope the tide will shift soon.








1 comments:
It's dangerous to assume any political party is "God's party," or that the United States is "a Christian nation." Equally dangerous is the polar-opposite reaction (and politically, the pendulum usually swings back and forth vigorously).
You say "At some point you have to go deeper than asking a candidate to proclaim his or her faith. Eventually you have to take their policies and compare them with Jesus and see how they measure up." I could not agree with you more, Mike. Single issue voters scare me. So does hard-line party loyalties at times. The proof is in the pudding...as Jesus would say, "you will know a tree by its fruit."
Very good unbiased observation in this post: "The result has been polarization, widespread religious illiteracy, and plenty of anger." The polarization of progressives and conservatives have made many aspects of trying to live Biblically pretty messy!
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