keith olbermann talks about the bush administration and makes some interesting links to how they use christianity for its gains in the political realm with conservatives rather than actually desiring to live it out… it’s a pretty interesting look and gives some credibility to some of the thoughts that many have had about bush’s “christianity.”
i’d give a hat tip… but this video was sent by “someone” who failed to mention themselves in the email… (ht:mcclane)
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- Interesting perception…
one thought about this…are we saying Bush should be more “Christian” as described by those in this broadcast, Pat Robertson, Dobson, etc, etc? It seems we (as in those rethinking church and Christianity) are always bashing the same people brought up here. Bottom line for me is, politicians from both parties are 90% of the time liars, crooks, cheats, etc, etc. It’s not my duty as a follower of Christ to judge Bush, Clinton, or anyone, but it happens..I just think it is rather amusing, people slam Bush for not being “more Christian” yet the definition of “Christian” here is usually referred to the far religious right, which from what I can tell is not Jesus based at all.
Sorry Monts, that would be me. I came across it and thought you would want to see it. By the way on a side note 1 more game baby!
i think the part that i found most interesting is that the administration used the religious right–and really doesn’t take them seriously at all. for me that’s partly a relief…
but when you find that the religious right isn’t taken seriously but just used as a pawn, you see that they really don’t have any power at all–which is also nice to see. i guess you could turn this back around to abortion–if the religious right had any power in politics abortion would’ve been abolished by now.
concerning abortion, randall balmer has argued that it is not in the interest of the neo-cons or republican leadership to alter the abortion law, for to do so would eliminate one of their primary wedge issues.
… and thus all their money, support, and “power”.
interesting.
Don’t trust politicians!
I am so amazed when evangelicals play the political power game and put their confidence in politicians and political parties. I am sure they must feel great about having a pipeline to the White House and it must play well with their egos being able to toss names around.
Ultimately, it seems to be about power. Evangelicals want to be a power block and have their say in Washington. Politicians want to get re-elected. It seems like everyone is using everyone else to get what they want.
There are, I believe, some called to enter the political world (at least I hope so). But this fighting fire with fire attitude and trying to leverage our evangelical political weight to get what we want may be well-intentioned, but sends a horrible message to an observant world.
It doesn’t sound very Jesus-like.
Religion and politics are both about power and money.
not all religion is about power and money… just the megachurches!
So Monts, when your church is sufficiently resusitated, will you lock the doors when your average attendance hits 999?
come on professor, you know a mega church doesn’t happen until the attendance hits 2,000. geesh.