Topic: God and Politics
well ... at least until the babies he saves grow old enough to join up. Then all pro-life bets are off. John McCain has also declared that he will be a pro-death guy with a pro-death presidency in mind. His presiding premise is that war is the only foreign policy useful for spreading America's corporate-driven globalization. It's a premise of economic and imperial design masquerading as the perfect form of democracy and democratic freedoms.
Senator John McCain told the conservative evangelical audience Saturday night that if elected, he would be a "pro-life President and have pro-life policies"
Really?
That wasn't religious fervor in his eyes last night. That was religious hypocrisy.
If we are going to incorporate public demonstrations of religious self-righteousness based on literalist Biblical values, let us begin and end with a literalist reading of the Sermon on the Mount, The Prodigal Son and The Good Samaritan.
Those scriptural passages are all we need to know if we want to have a better society than what we have now.
What we have now is a parsing of spiritual values in the same manner as we have parsed America's "core values." We parse our core values in order to justify or look the other way when our country behaves as a self-interested take-no-prisoners global imperialist.
We can't spread love by spreading hate.
We can't spread tolerance by spreading intolerance.
We cannot consciously stop judging and condemning others by spreading judgmental thinking, condemnation and self-righteousness.
But we can transform ourselves by following the real teachings of Jesus and not the lies of morally bankrupt self-bloated hypocrites. You know of whom I speak. Loudly posturing bible-waving moral midgets like John Hagee and CUSI who would have you believe that Jesus applauds when innocent human beings are collaterally killed in order to further foreign-policy stupidity,
Do any of us believe that human beings can be destroyed righteously? Do American Christians in a technologically advanced military society actually assume that God is pleased that airborne bombers can fly in a formation resembling a cross as they kill innocent mothers, fathers and children?
Can we accept this form of global abortion and call it good?
Can we sit in our churches once a week and walk about with a pious smile pretending to be like Jesus?
If you think such brings a smile to the face of the Prince of Peace, you need to stop spending so much time in your churches and more time in the real world.
Where Jesus walked.
