I've toned down my posts on Christianity here - I decided I was overdoing the attacks, often posting stuff that was unrelated to the main point of this blog - politics. Still, I think the religious right has a profound impact on the politics we argue day-to-day, so I was intrigued by an essay I found written by Tim Cerantola. Well done, says I - spot on.
Here are a couple of paragraphs from his post...
There is a weird brand of Christianity in America these days. It’s a mixed up evangelical brew consisting of Jesus, bigotry and atomic war.
Like any decent group of Jesus loving people, these god fearing souls actually support war, torture, bombings, killing of innocent civilians and any and all American military intervention everywhere, including the use of nuclear weapons – whatever it takes to get them to the Armageddon party – though oddly enough, they’re against terrorists and terrorism. Why? What’s the difference?
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From my point of view, there appears to be two completely antithetical types of Christians: the peace loving, care for the needy and poor types with their loving and forgiving God.
And then there’s the nasty, bloodthirsty, Old Testament types, with their wrathful god of smiting, thunderbolt tossing and pestilence – heavy on the friggin’ pestilence.
Read the rest of the essay...
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