Comments on: Obama’s victory: Republican hubris, Christian ignorance http://learningtosee.net/2008/11/06/obamas-victory-republican-hubris-christian-ignorance/ It's a right-brain kinda thing. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:12:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: search4beauty http://learningtosee.net/2008/11/06/obamas-victory-republican-hubris-christian-ignorance/#comment-103 search4beauty Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:54:25 +0000 http://artisticvision.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-103 I wish the church would wake up, flake off the 501c3 scales from its eyes and see what is happening. It is no longer about Republican/Democrat, Conservative/Liberal or even Black/White. That is the false dichotomy that is presented. While we all toil and argue about left and right flash-point issues...our "representatives" have allowed habeas corpus, posse comitatus, the 1st amendment and the 4th to all go by the wayside. We are losing the very rights that allow us to even have the argument. I am glad more people are looking at politics, but I wish they would look more deeply than the evening news and the message from the pulpit. What is the Christian culture and how did it become separated from giving to the poor, the hungry and the sick in favor of compassionate conservatism? When did being a Christian nation come to mean kidnapping, torture and pre-emptive war? What if evangelicals made their politcal focus facts, accountability, reason and empathy? We have gotten stuck in a red/blue and white/black argument that is a non-argument. I can't continue to convince myself the arguments I should be examining are those I am being told to examine. I wish the church would wake up, flake off the 501c3 scales from its eyes and see what is happening. It is no longer about Republican/Democrat, Conservative/Liberal or even Black/White. That is the false dichotomy that is presented.

While we all toil and argue about left and right flash-point issues…our “representatives” have allowed habeas corpus, posse comitatus, the 1st amendment and the 4th to all go by the wayside. We are losing the very rights that allow us to even have the argument. I am glad more people are looking at politics, but I wish they would look more deeply than the evening news and the message from the pulpit.

What is the Christian culture and how did it become separated from giving to the poor, the hungry and the sick in favor of compassionate conservatism? When did being a Christian nation come to mean kidnapping, torture and pre-emptive war?

What if evangelicals made their politcal focus facts, accountability, reason and empathy? We have gotten stuck in a red/blue and white/black argument that is a non-argument. I can’t continue to convince myself the arguments I should be examining are those I am being told to examine.

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