Open Letter to the Religious Right - Listen to What Our Country has Become

[Khephra]

An Open Letter to the Religious Right - Listen to What Our Country has Become

As a Christian, as a Catholic, as a Democrat, as a citizen of this country, I am compelled to speak out against the actions of those Christians who back this President. I point to them because they stand up before the world and point to themselves, loudly proclaiming their religion, their moral and family values even though they have been warned by Christ to " beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father, who is in Heaven." ( Matt.6:1) YET despite their professions, their words and actions do not give credence to the professions of their faith.

You who call yourselves Christians, who speak loudly, and at length about morals and family values, do not dispute a lie when it is in your favour, shield and justify certain criminals (if they nearly claim your beliefs), posture about the sanctity of marriage while (on the basis of national statistics) many of you have been divorced or have supported and justified the divorce of family, friends, acquaintances or colleagues and therefore have made a mockery of the concept that you now deem sacred, you try to avoid fair taxation (even though Christ commanded the people "to render unto Caesar's what is Caesar's") and even write off what you give to God to save more of your own monies, profess a belief in compassionate conservatism yet will not share your second coat with one who has none despite Christ's admonishment to do so and to give to everyone who begs from you (Luke 6:30). You publicly judge and condemn those that you believe violate Biblical law, quoting advantageous scriptures that you carry in your hand but not in your heart, while overlooking your own infractions. You are commanded to take the log out of your eye first (Luke 6:42), to "judge not that you will not be judged. For with the judgement you pronounce you will be judged and the measure you give will be the measure that you get." ( Matt. 7: 1-2). You claim to be pro-life, yet many give little thought to respecting the life that is already on this Earth; many of you are very harsh on single mothers and their children, not welcoming them into your communities and use them as object lessons of "the wages of sin". Many support the dismembering of social programmes that were designed to uphold some semblance of human dignity. Even worse are the silent hypocrites among you who have availed themselves or their family members to abortion services, justifying their action, as one pro-life person did in the New York Times 06//20/2004 article by Amy Horman, that their abortion was different because "they really had wanted their child."

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Stop and listen, listen to the venomous words now being spoken, not just in context to this election but about anyone you dislike, disdain or hate and you should be compelled to ask yourself what has become to us, as a nation - as a nation that claims to be under God? We should delete the phrase, if for no ther reason than to avoid the sin of hypocrisy. Christ taught that "if you only love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even the sinners love those who love them." ( Luke 6: 32-33).

So, because a President says he is born again, you will overlook the fact, that he is unaccounted for by his own military records? You require no credibility yet you tolerate the debasement of the records and reputations of American soldiers who put their lives on the line and lost much. Senator McCain in his 2000 presidential bid against Bush in South Carolina was slandered as overdramatising his time spent as a POW- a charge just revived in th 08/14/04 Free Republic. There is the 2002 slander written against Max Cleland by Ann Coulter in her article "Dropping Political Grenades" where she accuses him of being the cause of his own injuries that required triple amputations And now there is the malicious slander of John Kerry's war record, all orchestrated by a campaign that keeps Bush looking clean. Do you really believe as Christians that looking clean is ALL that matters? This President sends many American children to war - Where are his daughters? Or is the new Bush tradition of service that they are above the responsibilities of citizenship that he imposes on others?

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http://magic-city-news.com/article_1964.shtml

[indepat]

1. Enough to make one wonder if the Pope is wrong, that Pat and Jerry and

possibly Billy are in fact the embodiment of the anti-Christ, for "by your works shall ye be known." Their works focus on supporting the most un-Christian-like policies and actions imaginable.

[sybylla]

2. ***APPLAUSE****

Great article. I may pass that on to my fundie family and friends.

[dand]

3. Radicals are radicals,

people with closed minds are ripe for plucking, I don't care if they are Christian, Islamic, Jewish or Hindu, they are fodder for the Rove machine, like they were for Attwater, like they are for the Bin Ladens.

[smirkymonkey]

4. I am bookmarking this one.

It wraps it all up quite nicely.

[indypaul]

5. "Being Christian and patriotic

is a lot like being lady-like. The more you have to
tell us you are. The more we believe you ain't."

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Outstanding article!

Thank you for finding it.

I'm going to print it and hand it out to "Christian" hecklers that I encounter at Democratic events.

[Khephra]

7. I'm glad you all found it worthwhile!

I was applauding it in my room as I read it to myself. I'm happy to be able to spread "the good word". ;-)

[Khephra]

8. kick