Render unto Caesar, or you're out

[struggle4progress]

By Francis Volpe, May 10, 2005

... I've been completely unmoved by the running argument by right-wingers that Christianity is under attack in the United States, despite the best efforts of the Right Rev. Bill Frist (R-Sanctimony) and Monsignor Tom DeLay (R-19th Hole, You're Buying) to convince me this is so ...

But I've recently become aware of a situation that upsets my comfortable little worldview. There's an organization in a small North Carolina town that has expelled Christians from its membership, causing controversy in the community.

That organization is called the East Waynesville Baptist Church ...

... <What> his vote has gotten him is more ungodly waste and fraud in the service of a war that was predicated on a laundry list of lies. And I'd love to hear Chandler's sermon on the Biblical admonition about camels passing through the eye of a needle before the wealthy pass through the gates of heaven — contrasted with the Bush administration's incessant tax cuts for the wealthy ...

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2005/05/10/editorial/francis_volpe/volpe01.txt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Like the author, I think it is interesting

that the preacher lawyered up right away.

I'd also like to take my hat off to the Republican member who left along with the Democrats who were expelled. I hope that more Republicans like that person wake up to the fact that their party has been taken over by extremists and stand up and take their party back.

[Selatius]

2. He's pointing out something about the preacher: Hypocrisy n/t