How many of us did what GWB just did? Eulogizing a dead parent?

[LiberalLovinLug]

65. Yup I did

I used the occasion to vent a little politically as well. Maybe that was misplaced, but I couldn't help it.

My dad was an evangelical fundamentalist, who always voted for the right wing party. I can almost forgive him because he came from immigrants that escaped from Communist Russia who were deathly afraid of "the left". And of course my mom voted for whomever my dad did.

But this was the time of GW Bush and the war in Iraq. And all the lies coming from that administration. There was such a stark contrast between my kind empathetic father, who went out of his way to help disadvantaged people, who was living the actual Christian life that Jesus promoted. Turn the other cheek. Don't lie. Do good to those that hurt you. Be humble etc... Now did I want him to be tougher? To not "turn the other cheek"? damn right. But I still respected him for his faith, because he wasn't a hypocrite about it.

So I mentioned how there were leaders, down south(I'm in Canada)...who claimed to be Christian, but didn't act like ones, and how my dad actually lived the Christian life honestly. I could hear rumbles in the conservative crowd, because they knew full well who the leader was I was referring to.

But yeah, it was very difficult. I broke up a couple of times.