Bono tonight on HBO

interesting tenoch... who was it? why do you suppose there is this huge mixing between jesus and george w.?

Dear David Kuo, The concert was held at an evangelical mega-church in October, 2004, just before November elections. The mega-church in particular was proud of the fact that the pastor had some meetings with Dick Cheney--the pastor made sure to mention this from the pulpit on more than one occasion. (While I was taken to the concert by a friend who used to play with the band's keyboard player, I was quite familiar with the mega-church since I used to attend it.) What I noticed about this mega-church, which is similar to many other dominant U.S. evangelical movements, is that the actual teachings of Jesus were never taught.
During my 17 months of attending the mega-church, I cannot recall any sermon that actually mirrored what Jesus taught. Instead, attention was limited to select portions of Paul's letters or highly selective Old Testament passages. Such passages were carefully delivered in a self-esteem pop psychology that--above all else--affirmed the cult of the Individual, with no attention to the collective systems of power & privilege that enable such myths.
Since I am not baptized in the name of Paul of Tarsus and because I do not worship highly selective scriptures from the Hebrew bible (like politically popular passages about theocracy-driven warfare) and because I do not worship at the temple of unregulated global capitalism, I eventually left the mega-church for a more gospel-centered faith community.
So it seems to me that dominant U.S. evangelicals suffer from a severe problem of illiteracy--they don't know what Jesus actually taught, and thus they naturally lack the spiritual vision to actually enact such teachings in real-world situations. I won't accuse them of not "believing," since they certainly do passionately believe in something. But shame on U.S. pastors and pastoral boards for allowing such wide-scale illiteracy and consequent seduction.
They have their tax-free cafes, but Jesus is still nowhere to be found.

What Christians need to realize is that not everyone will accept the message of Christ. There are people that will not become "followers of the way." It's time to let these people go and stop trying to debate them.
What politics should be followed by Christians, is the politics of freedom. Let people do what they choose, and never alter the Gospel or water it down for political reasons.
The great divide between the Left and the Right, is that the Left has altered the Gospel to include anti-Christians, and that the Right has yet to realize the wolves - who are really lying to them - being among them as well.
No Christian should be a Democrat, or a Republican, unless they make it clear that Jesus is not for sale.
Pro-Family and Pro-Life, have huge differences of meaning to the "left and right." Yet, have the same reality: shattered lives. It is just that one side recognizes it and the other side re-labels it. Why is it wrong for a Christian band to support George Bush, but it is OK for Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen et al, to sing for Democrat-leftist ideals, without a wimper of protest from political interest groups?
Religion does not mean loss of rights.
And hypocrisy is not just something to accuse Christians of.