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Title: Letter to the Editor: The Waning Political Clout of Evangelicals
Source: The Fountain of Truth
URL Source: http://www.geocities.com/fountoftruth/waning.html
Published: Jul 3, 2008
Author: Doug Newman
Post Date: 2008-07-03 21:58:26 by snoopdougg
Keywords: None
Views: 2614
Comments: 18

Letters to the Editor
Rocky Mountain News
101 W. Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO 80202

Editor:

Thank you for your article of June 30, 2008 entitled “Evangelicals' political clout wanes, scholars say.” This waning political influence is long overdue. For years, Christians and their churches have been inappropriately used as partisan political tools. The consequences have been most unfortunate.

From 1980 to 2000, there was always a drumbeat about the need for Christians to vote Republican. When George W. Bush mentioned Jesus during the 2000 campaign, things went crazy. Based on just one statement, evangelical leaders relentlessly promoted Bush as this great Christian man and insisted that Christians stand with him foursquare. Someone said that it was as if they wanted to add Bush to the Holy Trinity.

Millions of evangelicals thus became fervent supporters of unprovoked war, torture, warrantless searches and spying, rogue police and guilt without trial. They became cheerleaders for the most un-Christlike behavior imaginable.

When called on this, they often would try to frighten people, saying things like, “Do you want liberals in power?” Well, our “conservative” president outspends his liberal predecessor by $1 trillion per year. Every liberal program these “conservatives” say they oppose is larger and costlier than ever. Abortions are as available now as they were in the Clinton years.

Christians are called to be light in a world of darkness and salt in a world of decay. While we need to be involved in politics, we must not compromise Christianity for the sake of political victory. We must acknowledge the very strict limits of what government can accomplish and that the state almost always does more harm than good.

We must also not yoke ourselves unequally with secular political movements. This unholy alliance of evangelical Christians and the Republican Party has given Christians a reputation as warmongers, cultural control freaks and partisan political jerks. This is not how Christ called us to live.

Let us look to the Bible and to the teachings of Christ, rather than temporal partisan political agendas, as our guide toward influencing our world.

Douglas F. Newman
Aurora

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#3. To: snoopdougg (#0)

Someone said that it was as if they wanted to add Bush to the Holy Trinity.

why are so many people fooled by a politician's words while refusing to look at their actions. the very same thing is now occurring with obama.

christine  posted on  2008-07-03   22:23:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#4. To: christine (#3)

the very same thing is now occurring with obama.

It's a 21st-century Ghost Dance.

MUDDOG  posted on  2008-07-03 22:24:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: christine (#3)

why are so many people fooled by a politician's words while refusing to look at their actions. the very same thing is now occurring with obama.

I believe Obama when he talks about change. The problem is, his "change" scares the crap out of me.

X-15  posted on  2008-07-03 23:53:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: christine, Ferret Mike, Arator, aristeides (#3)

Someone said that it was as if they wanted to add Bush to the Holy Trinity.

why are so many people fooled by a politician's words while refusing to look at their actions. the very same thing is now occurring with obama.

It can't be explained rationally because it is irrational. I was chewing on about the same thought yesterday after reading someone's comment about the "Oh'bummer Cult" - which is no different than the "Bush Cult". Although I dislike the use of the term cult as it is frequently misused to make an ad hominem argument against something one does not like - as in the Kool-Aid drinkers referring to the 911 Truth Movement as a "cult".

Returning to the original thought though - trying to explain Duhbya or Oh'Bummer worship rationally is doomed to failure in that it is not rational. Frequently, as I am sure you have noticed, both, which might as well be twins, always accentuate their "faith" in their current saviour and will not examine data and make an informed analysis. As we have both commented the simple fact of contrasting the treatment of Ron Paul by the media versus the faux adulation levied upon Oh'Bummer by the media offers a simple prima facie case that Oh'Bummer is NOT what the Baaing Sheeple try to convince themselves he is. Vague and undefined lines about "Change" without a definition of what "Change" is, is not a policy nor a reason to rationally support someone. When one burrows through Oh'Bummer's Rhetoric he really is not advocating anything significantly different than the current Bush Junta.

The media black-out of Larry Sinclair and the convenient, and untimely, deaths of a couple of "Oh'Bummer's" alleged gay love interests speaks volumes, but the Oh'Bummerphiles are simply going nuts over it - trying to deny without examining.

Of course if the Sheeple thought and acted rationally we would never have gotten a Bush as Preznit.

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