Religion in America part 1

The results of the past election is not a shock to me. Nor are the reasons behind it a shock. I sent a letter to Air America, a network I like to listen to and mostly agree with...mostly. This letter was sent June 6th 2004. Too bad nobody listened.

Dear Randi,

You do the Democratic Party, my party, a disservice, to insult Evangelical Christians. My savior tells me to "go and make desciples of all the nations." This being said I think that Christians in this nation have not, and are not attempting to hijack a political party. It is the other way around. The Republican party apparatus seeks to use Christianity as a tool to attain more power. It uses faith the same way George III used it. As a means of control and as an exuse for terrible acts of cruelty. Unfortunately some who are weak in faith fall prey to the suductive, faustian bargain, that they are forging.

Thankfully our founders wished to keep government out of faith. To safegard their own faith and the faith of all the citizens, from the earthly corruption that predictably comes from the mingling of, as Augustine would say, the city of the Earth with the city of God. As a Christian I believe that each city, for now, is mutually exclusive. Only God can unify them and the hand of man will have no part in that.

It is a great falsehood to think that Christianity needs something as trival and fleeting as a civil government to survive and thrive. For even an Earthly superpower is as nothing compared with that which cast the foundations of existance.

I will vote Democratic because theirs is a more humane approach to nationhood. And is, because of that humanity, a stronger and more lasting solution to earthly problems. Yet I would never say that the Democratic party is on God's side. Saying that of either party is an insult to the Divine.

Please stop insluting Christians as if we are all a bunch of ignorant hicks. Everytime you do that you push more and more Christians into the hands of a party that has nothing to do with Christ or His teachings.