I'm on outrage overload. And with all due respect to Christians here, the Christian Right rather feels like an unstopable juggernaut to me now. Over the last five or six years, they've successfully eroded so much of this governement, and of the ability for any opposition to do anything about them, that I don't know what to do, or how to stop it.
It's soured me on Christianity so bad, I pretty much have to just not talk about it with people I care about, lest it cause too much of a rift in our relationship.
It's soured me on Christianity so bad, I pretty much have to just not talk about it with people I care about, lest it cause too much of a rift in our relationship.
It's funny/ironic/sad that I've more than once had the conversation where the person I was talking to swapped "Americans" for "Christianity" in the above sentiment. With the undertone that I was doing something wrong for being among the enemy.
I don't let them not have the conversation though, because it's important to me.
I interrupt your outrage for a nephew report.
Yesterday I got him a little people farmhouse with a cow, duck, chicken, horse, pig, and sheep (and he knows what they all say, yes he does. The sheep goes baaaaa).
Also purchased many books on Amazon for his birthday. Including Blueberries for Sal.
This is the last day I get to play with him, I'm going back to LA tomorrow. Heartbroken.
No more, "Auntie! Read book!"
Broken.
There's a christian left too and lots of christian liberals. However, they are not politically important.
I like James Blunt -- I saw him on the Today Show and he's cute and snarky.
James Blunt (hail to thee, oh Bluntish one; we pledge our fealty to you and your heirs, apparently) gets a namecheck in this blog commentary on the latest set of Dewey subcategory numbers:
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Is that sufficiently tortous reasoning for a link post?
IMO the reason the right is so strong is that there are a lot of one issue voters with one fervent side and one lukewarm side and the democrats are on the lukewarm side of most of them. Abortion, homosexuality, guns, national security, taxes, etc...
There are lots of people who think that the democrats stand for abortion, gun-control, more government regulation, and more taxes. Who the heck wants that?
OH! ME TOO!! I think it is what Jesus would want, given the current world situation.
