Not mine since I'm still preparing for my doctrine of God final:
In the end, the document seems to be saying something like this: “We’re tired of being lumped in with the fundamentalists, who are always angry and rattling on about America being a ‘Christian nation’ and that kind of junk. We’re tired of being treated as the lapdogs of the Republican party. We’re followed the Republicans all these years because of one issue — abortion — and while we don’t want to abandon our pro-life stance, we think that we’ve ignored a lot of other Christian values and convictions in order to get leverage on this one matter, and now we’re thinking that that wasn’t such a good idea. And by the way, some of us have been Democrats all along. But we’re not telling you how to vote, so don’t jump to any conclusions. We just want to be seen as polite and reasonable participants in the American public sphere, unlike the red-faced old dudes you always see on TV presented as ‘the evangelical voice.’ We’re sick and tired of all that.”I think from the little I've been reading about the document, it's written to someone like me who is tired of Christians trying to reshape the Republican party in their image and the Republican party letting them because it helps them obtain power. To some that means abandoning it altogether and joining the Democrats or admitting that you're already a Democrat. For me that's a bridge too far to cross because I really am a Republican. I have no intention of voting for people who will fund abortions, raise my taxes, pull out of Iraq in defeat and spend at a greater clip than even the Republicans could imagine. Not to mention how bloated the federal government would be when they were done. No, I can't see jumping from the pan into the fire.I share many of the feelings that prompted this document, I admit, but I think this so-called Manifesto raises more questions than it answers, and creates more confusions than it resolves. The authors call themselves “representative evangelicals,” but are they? Or do they represent a highly educated, culturally elite subset of evangelicals? If they want to claim the name “evangelical” and deny it to fundamentalists, then what happens if the people they call fundamentalists want to call themselves evangelicals? Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University (an organ of the Religious Right if there ever was one) calls itself the world’s largest evangelical university — should it stop using that adjective? (“Evangelical,” I mean, not “largest.”)
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It's so sad when someone is completely and utterly wrong and yet "knows" that they're right. One is reminded of how St. Paul must have perceived his actions before his conversion experience. I fear Michele is going to need a personal visit from Christ herself before the message in that Bible she's been reading all these years finally bores its way through her skull.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
It's really quite simple.
Posted by: ben | May 10, 2008 9:24 PM
Gee, Ben, so Jesus was all about killing babies. How do you get that? Oh, I'm sorry, being against baby killing is not "nice". Because being "nice" means not offending anybody, and since the murdering mothers are able to pout, and the babies are not, being on the side of the babies is not "nice".
Shallow, juvenile, childish reasoning. I hope you never get old and have to depend on somebody else for your life. I think at that point you will find the murder of helpless ones less convenient.
Posted by: ZZ | May 10, 2008 10:55 PM
I never said anything about abortion. I was mostly referring to economic and foreign policies that benefit only big business and the wealthy to the detriment of everyone else. Which is a huge part of the republican platform. They sure lure you suckers in with that abortion thing don't they? "Pro life till they're born" should be your motto.
Posted by: ben | May 11, 2008 12:55 AM
"benefit only big business"
Oh, like the companies that grow and deliver your food and made you car and clothing and who EMPLOY you. Way to pick your enemies, bub.
Posted by: ZZ | May 11, 2008 12:29 PM
"I really am a Republican."
No kidding! Whodathunkit?
"I have no intention of voting for people who will fund abortions"
As if Rethuglicans have stopped abortions. You would prefere the good ole back alley (TM) method?
"raise my taxes"
Go ahead and "read [his] lips", Michele.
"pull out of Iraq in defeat"
Seems you would prefer 100 years of staying in Iraq in defeat.
"and spend at a greater clip than even the Republicans could imagine"
I doubt ANY Democrat could spend as much as fast as the U.S. has wasted in Iraq: "[Bush] also added to his own problems by spending way too much money and allowing Congress to spend too much money." YOUR words, Michele; YOUR words.
ZZ,
"I HAVE INVESTMENTS TOO, and so should YOU."
That's kinda hard for the person who has to choose between paying the rent and/or feeding the kids and/or paying for needed health care since they are lucky enough to work for a company that doesn't provide it. Get a clue.
Posted by: recovering ex-Pentecostal | May 12, 2008 12:16 PM
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