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Dear Mr. Berendt:
I heard about the so-called "American Family" group who want people to demand an apology for the Darwin sticker indicating that the Christian right are hypocrites. On the contrary, as a Washingtonian and a Christian, I do think they are hypocrites. Jesus told us all, "What ye do to the least of us, ye do to me..."
If the religious right were not hypocrites, they would care less about who is marrying whom and more about the war, famine, homelessness, underemployment, the widening gap between the rich and the poor in this country, the lack of health care, pollution, and the need for a livable wage. But they care more about fetuses in the womb and could give a damn about people after they get out of the womb.
1. Instead the religious right supports immoral wars against innocents (especially people not of their faith), and they do not tolerate any other religion but their own brand. Jesus told us all the story about the man with the greatest faith, and it is a Samaritan, someone whose faith was different from His own.
2. The religious right thinks that it is just fine to take a mother's life in exchange for a fetus that may also die (partial birth abortion). They do not seem to care about who will take care of this child if the mother is dead. They do not seem to care if the child is born being miserable with afflictions that nobody can care for.
3. The religious right do not seem to have many answers for the children already languishing in foster homes with no family ~ I do not see a whole lot of them adopting these kids.
3. The religious right are against our country supporting the poor, they do not want any assistance given by our government for the homeless and hungry. They say they will do it themselves ~ yet many of them then refuse to serve anyone but their own people while taking everyone's tax money. They build gaudy churches and fancy homes, while next-door people are without even a home.
4. They believe it is just fine for the state to take a life for a life when their own Jesus suffered the same cruel death penalty. He told the man who was dying next to him he would meet him in heaven. Jesus said to forgive, and to turn the other cheek, not exact revenge on someone. To support a government who kills people seems to miss the point of their own prophet's death.
5. The religious right believes it is just fine to give everything we have in our tax funds to the very richest people, supporting a rich president who has little or no feelings for the millions of people suffering under his Republican party's mandates. They think it is just fine that people are working for nothing and it is just fine if millionaires get richer off these peoples' backs. Worse, allowing these same rich people to not to even pay taxes themselves, but collect even more than they would ever need from the very neediest among us.
6. The religious right supports the corporation over the individual, and they have little problem with their own billionaire preachers enriching themselves on the backs of innocent children, such as Pat Robertson who makes his money off the backs of children in Africa. He is not the only one; the loudest and cruelest ministers prance around on opulent stages in 1000.00 suits, and ride in in their fancy limousine's to their mansions. People like James Dobson have little trouble collecting millions and then condemning people to lives of misery.
I have heard their ministers’ rail on television and the radio about these things and I find it appalling. There are over 1500 biblical admonitions to take care of the poor. Jesus told a rich man that he could obey all the laws in the world but he still would not get into heaven unless he sold everything he had and gave the money away6 to the poor.
If this is not the ultimate of hypocrisy that the above mentioned do every time they praise a president who has lied us into war, taken from the poor and given it to the rich, who is responsible for the suffering of millions of innocents, both here and abroad, who is more concerned with his golf game than he is with the deaths of our children, who is obsessed with his weight while our own countrymen in New Orleans are dying, I find this the ultimate of hypocrisy, yes I do. Jesus said people like the president, the rich and especially the self satisfied, self-righteous, were the folks who would never get to heaven. Jesus said people like that already had their rewards here on earth. I take that to mean Jesus said they were not going to any heaven so perhaps they are all going to hell.
Catherine L. sullivan
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How 'bout that?
Cat In Seattle
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