On the political hijacking of religion

[robbedvoter]

"If we’d continued our conversation, I would have wanted to ask him this: Why are all the fights over posting religious language in government buildings — and, most recently, having it embroidered down the front of your judge’s robes — about the Ten Commandments? How come no one’s ever gone to court over posting the Beatitudes?"
"Of all the progressive and moderate people of faith I talked to as part of this story, Howard “Flash” Gordon, pastor of First Presbyterian Church and a social justice activist, told me the story I’ve repeated the most often:
When Ronald Reagan died earlier this year, someone from Fox News called Gordon, looking for a sound bite for a story on Reagan’s religious faith because Gordon had known Reagan’s pastor.
“I said, ‘He didn’t take care of poor people,’ ” Gordon said.
The guy from Fox said, “I don’t want to hear about poor people, I want to hear about Reagan’s Christianity.”
Gordon replied, “That IS Reagan’s Christianity,” and the Fox guy hung up on him."
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=cd3a8b03-56d6-495b-b40b-46330316a2fc

[Ganja Ninja]

1. LOL!

That sums up the whole Christian right in a nutshell.

[robbedvoter]

2. Yeah, I made that paragraph a signature for my season e-mail!

For them, religion - like the government is to opress, not to help.
Anything appearing contrary to that is just smoke and mirrors.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. That's nauseating

:puke:

Their Christianity is the Social Darwinist kind. Frightening.

[Demit]

4. I enjoyed that piece very much. Thanks for posting it!