What Would Jesus Do?

[Nbadan]

Is W. really God's candid?

More than 40 Christian leaders and 40,000 faithful citizens signed a pe ion declaring that "God is not a Republican...or a Democrat" and that the Religious Right does not speak for them. The pe ion refutes claims by Jerry Falwell that "Evangelical Christians...need to get serious about re-electing President Bush" and by Pat Robertson that "George Bush is going to win in walk...the Lord's just blessing him." The pe ion calls for all Christians to take back their faith and appears as a full-page ad in Monday's The New York Times, paid for by nearly 3,500 supporters of Sojourners, the national Christian magazine and organization that initiated the pe ion. ..

Due to an outpouring of responses from people across the nation, the pe ion is also appearing as a full-page ad this morning in The News & Advance (Rev. Falwell's local newspaper in Lynchburg, Va.) and The Virginian-Pilot (Mr. Robertson's local newspaper in Hampton Roads, Va.). In response to thousands of individual donations, Sojourners is also establishing a fund to help people of faith place the ad in their hometown newspapers.

Rev. Brian McLaren, popular Christian author and pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Maryland, described the pe ion's purpose this way: "The Religious Right has a powerful hold on many individuals and churches in our country. Many of them have never even heard a responsible counterpoint expressed by thoughtful, biblically rooted Christian thinkers and leaders."

Placement of full-page ads on the first day of the Republican National Convention follows the delivery of a similar message by Rev. Wallis to the Democratic National Convention in an address to a luncheon on faith and politics in Boston that week and in a Boston Globe op-ed in which Rev. Wallis declared that "the best public contribution of religion is precisely not to be ideologically predictable or a loyal partisan." ..

Who's loonyer, the religious-right bunch, or the N.Y.er's who think the U.S. had forknowledge of 911?

Does God speak through W, or is it just the after effects of past alcohol and "alleged" drug abuse?

[Tommy Duncan]

Is that the same God that the 42nd President saw fit to claim for his political agenda this past Sunday?

[IcemanCometh]