American Gadfly

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Christians have been suckered in America

Christians in this country have been suckered. I'm not talking about the televangelists who duped gullible people of faith out of their money. I'm talking about modern day, sly efforts by so-called "Christians" to get unwavering political support yet go about doing very "un-Christian" things.
Take Ralph Reed, for example. The poster child for Christian conservatism in the political arena. A man who mobilized the Christian hordes into politics, aligning the Republican party with the Christian conservative agenda. Yet, what happened to Ralph? Money and power happened to him. His "Christian" values did him no good when confronted with taking money from Native American gambling interests while decietfully trying to block such gambling interests.
What about our president? We have a president who is a "Christian" - fighting for the lives of embryos and fetuses everywhere. Yet one question the Christians of this country need to face - isn't war associated with killing? How about a war based on lies? Could that even be considered murdering? What do you think about all the lives, American and Iraqi, lost at the hands of our "Christian", "pro-life" president over a war based on lies?

Christians need to wake up and stop voting with their faith, and start voting with their minds. Stop voting for those your pastor tells you to vote for, and vote for someone you believe will change this country for the better. Otherwise, Christians will be no better off than those hapless dupes fleeced by those televangelists in the 80s and 90s.

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