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RNC Seems More Like Church Service…
So many of you know that I’m a very strong believer in Christ Jesus, and some even know that I’ve served as a youth minister on the south side of Chicago. Many of you also know that I’m huge into politics, so I’ve actually been watching both of the major American party conventions this year.
I was *SHOCKED* to see how much the RNC turned into a church service. Everybody is quoting scripture, everybody is talking about believing in sanctity of life, but there are two items that I see that are in scripture but are missing here: helping the poor and caring for the sick. John McCain’s health care and economic policies are disgusting, and instead of talking about issues during this convention, it appears as though they’re going to focus on scripture.
This campaign and candidate aren’t interested in serving the American people. They’re interested in serving the Christian right. I suppose some might say I should be delighted that I’m a Christian and in the group of people who they want to serve… but I reject their hypocritical positions, and I rebuke them for their utter refusal to serve all of America.
Matthew 25:31-45 clearly shows us that Jesus is more interested in how we love our fellow man than he is in whether we were pro-choice or pro-life. Republicans, wake up. John McCain isn’t Jesus, and God has not picked sides in this election.
And by the way RNC, your DISH Network feed is abominable. The DNC had a high-quality HD feed, the RNC is has broken audio, poor quality video, and poor volume control. Who’s directing this show? George W. Bush?!
I’d also like to say that the dog & pony show with the POWs is a bit tired by now. I guess you’ve gotta fill four days, but this is ridiculous.
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If they keep you talking about Church, you don’t talk about your job and your expenses and the direction the real world is taking. The right-wing distraction groups have names like Focus on the Family.
“Focus on the Family” is about distracting people from the needs of their families, you need to just take a step back. It should be called “Focus on Other People’s Families”, perhaps with a sub-title “So that you can vote for people who will ignore the needs of your family”.
Most families are worried about the cost of education, housing, energy, health care, and their retirement. It takes a lot of prompting to get people to start talking about the possible problems that Focus on the Family is yelling about.
Notice that the real problems all have to do with money. Focus on the Family and others are there to distract you from the real issues (aka economic issues).
I just posted about this on this conservative guy’s blog. He does not get it…
http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/porn-at-30000-feet/
Actually, jjesse is among those conservative geeks that I consider friends, so please be try to be a little more careful how you trash people across the internet. It *IS* possible to criticize someone’s conservative positions without trashing them personally. If they’re acting up, sure, call ‘em on it, but jjesse is just expressing his conservative views with a healthy dose of questioning censorship, and I think he may have come to an interesting conclusion in this article.
Now I’ll admit that I have a problem with Focus on the Family and groups like them for their consistently aggressive and legalistic approach to living a faith-based life in the USA. I reject their claims that the USA is a “Christian nation,” though there are many in the USA who are Christian… I’m one of them. But Focus on the Family does do some good, and I’ve found some of their parenting materials–especially “Bringing Up Boys”–interesting.
I agree with you that we must remain determined and focused on the core issues that government should be solving: economy, healthcare, sane foreign policy and not prayer in the classroom, abortion regulation, and restricting science in the classroom.
And in closing, I think you have misunderstood jjesse in his article. I don’t think he’s saying that American Airlines should censor their connection, and I don’t think he’s suggesting that people shouldn’t buy Playboy at airports. I think he’s actually–in a clear way on the connection and less clear way on the magazine issue–taking a position I agree with. His position seems to be that restriction there isn’t necessary because nobody is going to actually look at porn on the airplane. I would agree that his wording may not be as precise as it could have been, but I really don’t think he’s calling for censorship in any way.