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On a Sunday afternoon, my belly full of the sweet fruit of the Spirit, my mind renewed by worship and the Word, I have to lay down my sword. I give. I'm tired. I'm so ever-loving tired of religio-political infighting, scandal, lies and name-calling. Left, right, left right. This morning I woke up with an ache from clenched teeth and a queasy stomach from midnight committee meetings on Health Care Reform --and those meetings were just in my head. Glenn Beck, Teabaggers, Joe Wilson, Death Panels. Max Blumenthal's book blaming Focus on the Family and homeschooling for a troubled young man's killing spree. Why does a lunatic fringe get to do PR for my religion? Who said the either the Far Right or the muckraking anti-Christian Far-Right haters know the nature of my God and what he really teaches? A pox on both their houses.
It's hard for me to retreat to my tent. I'm an advocate by nature, a slave to my Father's Truth. Let me be the first to say it. Today, I'm not fired up. I'm not ready to go.
Gary Younge of The Nation wrote Wednesday:
It's not difficult to ridicule the American right. Its peculiar blend of paranoia, mania, fantasy and misanthropy has been given full rein these past few months. Those who demanded in July to see Obama's birth certificate (which does exist) ended August invoking the British healthcare system's "death panels" (which do not). That most of their claims were verifiably false was of little consequence--to them at least. At one point they insisted that if scientist Stephen Hawking were British and subject to the National Health Service, he would be dead, even though Hawking is British, alive and grateful to the NHS for his care.
Lion of Judah, help me! I just want there to be truth! I just want God's family to acknowledge the moral imperatives in this world instead of sticking to some Sharks vs. Jets routine based on political ideological entrenchments. Everyone should have enough. If a man asks you for your tunic, you give it. They will know we are Christians by our love. These are not Woodstock Free Love Pie in the Sky ideologies of a dewy-eyed fool. These are our beliefs based on holy scripture.
Soes it really have to be more complicated than that?
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