"The Evangelical Crackup"
Sunday October 28, 2007
Long and brilliant piece in today's NYT Magazine on the cracking up of the evangelical political world. I'll write more later but here is the piece's core: Just three years ago, the leaders of the conservative Christian political movement could...
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Hi, I just watched this on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9760BfiSSCA&NR=1 and I wanted to let you know that I support you entirely.
I see no reason for the Democratic Party to be against Christian values and I see nothing but hypocrisy in the Republican Party claiming to be the party of religious values.
The Republican Party is the party of wealthy people who support policies for the benefit of the wealthy regardless of how hurting the impoverished are.
The Democratic Party may be off on a thousand and one issues but, in my opinion, they're the only major-party option available for people with the values of the Bible. If only they would join the Democratic alliance and change it from the inside...
Anyhow, thank you again for caring for those who are not well-off, despite the fact that most people of your belief-persuasion have bought into the puppet show of the Republican Leadership.
Cheers,
mnuez
www.mnuez.blogspot.com
Great article, David.
It sounds like a lot of other people are going through the same struggles between politics and faith that you have.
I look forward to hearing your take on this. My first reaction to the article was, if your pilgrimage ends in D.C. that ain't Jesus nor Moses you're following.
Seems to me that some are still searching for Jesus preaching the Sermon on the Mount....that alone provides much love and guidance.
I fail to understand why everyone always aligns the Republican party with the "rich" and the Democratic party with the "Poor" when neither do anything for either side... they all work for themselves. I'm considered the bottom of the bottom of "Middle-class" and I am a republican, on the same token.. I'm not rich, nor do I vote for them to make me rich. people need to step back, and look at the system, it's really an us-them system.. not a republican - democrat.. they are all the same. they just happen to align themselves one way or another to make it seem publicly like they are actually going for the issues that matter to those that vote, nothing more. ever wonder why they never do what they say? I rest my case..
Personally, I think it is a good sign that Evangelicals are drifting away from their leaders. Too often, it seems like those who claim to be Christians are following the leadership of a man in power, not Christ.
This election will fracture the evangelical right from the monolithic chains of a one-size-fits-all view of the James Dobson's of the world. If 9/11 has taught me anything it is that a binding of religion and politics is lethal.
It really is the end of:
"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
Sauron for President, Zero? Tempting.
Actually, Cthulu for president, (when you're tired of the lesser of two evils.)
As soon as homosexuals and their promoters started showing up in the GOP, it was time for Christians to step away from them as well. James Dobson was right yet again.
Donny
Zero, the greater is the creeping crawling chaos Nyarlathotep.
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