Few things were as telling about the White House and how they view evangelical voters (and leaders) than this paragraph from the AP story of Ted Haggard, "White House spokesman Tony Fratto said Haggard was on the weekly calls between Bush aides and evangelical leaders only 'a couple' of times. The minister has visited the White House, but 'there've been a lot of people who've come to the White House,' Fratto said. He expressed confidence that evangelical voters can distinguish between an individual's problems and the GOP's agenda."
A White House that has relied on Pastor Haggard's support for the past six years has effectively kicked him to the curb. He is no longer of any use - faith or no faith and the White House's true compassion is revealed: a passion for evangelical votes on Tuesday.
There isn't any compassion for a pastor's fall or a man's disgrace or anything else, just a passion that the White House's god - politics - be saved. Christians should pay as much attention to that as to anything else because here is the other truth - if the news had come out the other way and the story was purely made up? The White House would have been on the offensive attacking those who attacked the president's "friend" Ted Haggard. This is all pretty disgusting.
Christians beware - Understand your political worth
Friday November 3, 2006
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Yawn. Nothing to see here. Move along. It's the same regurgitated discussion that comes along about Christians and politics every time this happens. Christians are not the whore, btw. The whore are the politicians, and Christians are discovering that when you woo a whore and try to get into bed with her, if something happens she will run off. Ted just discovered how much you can trust a whore, and Evangelicals are too.
Charlene, you reach out to shake your pastor's hand and instead he gives you some garbage. I'd be insulted too! When I was a teen the Episcopalian pastor in our town was a very aristocratic and conservative gentleman named Coatsworth Pinckney Lewis, descended from several of the Founding Fathers and a Virginia gentleman of the highest order. It so happened that President Johnson came to the parish one Sunday, and Rev. Lewis preached a sermon against the war in Viet Nam. The town was in an uproar! It was on the front page of the New York Times!
It was the most astonishing, most courageous thing. My dad said, "LBJ is finished. When ministers of the caliber of Rev. Lewis have to lecture you from the pulpit on Christian values, you've well and truly lost your way." I think very many Americans, Christians and non-Christians alike, would appreciate Christian leaders standing up for the values of Jesus of Nazareth, and showing a little courage and independence.
The poor, the weak, the oppressed, and the down-trodden are still out there. Religious faith is strong in America, but I think the leadership has been seduced by the lures of political power. It need not be this way.
Slash, love your dismissive attitude. Just so you know; the church is the whore...the whore of Babylon as fortold in Revelation 17, "with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication". She is drunk with the wine that is the blood of true saints, and the martyrs of Jesus Christ The beast she rides upon is the political system of today, the antichrist worldly kingdom. And they "shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them".
Let me be up front with the statement that I'm not a religious person. That said, I DO care very much about my fellow Americans whatever their religious persuasion may be. It has been apparent to me for a long time that the GOP made the dicision very callously to invite Christians into the party for one reason only: their votes. Period.
It is disgusting to watch good people being fleeced in this manner every election cycle and knowing that they are viewed as gullible fools who will be eternally satisfied with being thrown just enough crumbs between cycles to keep them as a dependable voting bloc. YUKK!!!!!! This is truly unconscionable and very un-Christian in my book. Nothing would please me more than to see an awakening by Christians and have them tell the parasitical GOP to go find another group of suckers.
Another point to consider is the complicity of the leaders of the Evangelical faith who are complicit in this unhealthy relationship. If anyone thinks that James Dobson etc. isn't aware of being used in such a despicable manner....well, what can I say? Good luck Christains, you are in for a bumpy ride.
Eddie, To paraphrase your 'compassionate' "Unless they are so weak as to have to be told how to vote by holier than thou" , um James Dobson? Jerry Falwell? Pat Robertson? Tony Perkins? Etc.
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