The problem is even greater for Christian conservatives who look at polls and see the men who most closely champion their values - Sen. Brownback and Gov. Huckabee - with 1% support nationwide.And as conservatives consider their presidential hopefuls, they're concerned. None of their frontrunners — former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney — are true, purebred conservatives.
Crawford concludes, "With President Bush, conservatives, more or less, knew who they were getting. This time around, they may have to settle for the man who can win."
A religious war within the GOP is on the horizon where Christian conservative activists begin pounding the table with more and more passion insisting that Jesus wouldn't support someone like McCain/Giuliani/Romney and where Jesus' public identity will once again be defined by divisive politics and culture war policies that he never chose.
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That Americans are becoming (more) debauched and anti-Christ shouldn't surprise any student of history. Biblical or secular. We have arrived at the abomination-status where men are marrying men. It is too late to save America now.
And we should be surprised that our politicians are reprobates as well? The Church came from persecution by religious fanatics and sexual hedonists. We are back where we began. Shake the dust off our feet from the deviants and let the anti-Christians perish of their own accord. Luckily we have a country based on "everyone" being allowed to walk their own path. Jesus let those that choose sin to grasp it and its consequneces. Why are Christians worried about the disgusting practices of Democrats, when it only harms the Democrats and their willing victims?
"Give me those old time abominations, they're good enough for me."
Stephen Davidson's posts, chock full of strawmen, sound just like the same genre of posts by Donny. Hmmm
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! I find any form of religion that REVELS in letting the world crumble (and who better to blame than liberals) so that the savior will come whisk the righteous (i.e. conservatives) away to be more than a little bit creepy. In fact, its borderline delusional. Some extremist Christians seem to be only happy believing the end times are imminent. Not a very positive way to live life if you ask me.
Of course the simple explanation is that liberals and moderates (and even a lot of classic conservatives) have just about had enough of all this right wing religious extremism that has dominated American politics over the last 6 years.
But its a lot easier to proclaim such a political sea change as a sign of the end times instead of acknowledging that maybe, just maybe, the cultural right might have made a misstep. Thank goodness a lot of moderate conservatives are realizing that their party made a bad choice in co-opting the votes of religious extremists. Maybe now we can all start talking to one another again. min.
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