People claiming to be Christians, but supporting various hate groups are not Christian at all. These folks rarely reflect "the light of the world." Jesus would not recognize what passes for Christianity today in America. He would not support our love of money and power. He would not support the businessman looking for tax breaks, while supporting war.

The hatred from churches over gays does serve a purpose. It reminds us what is really in their hearts! From a Christian perspective, it is against the teachings of Christ to donate money to any of these pretenders.

Posted at June 12, 2005 1:58 PM in response to Broken Communion

I suspect that there is nothing constuctive that we can do there. Anything we do will only make matters worse. We have this large ego that tells us we are the only ones who can fix it. We can't. We really have to get over it.

The best we can do is to bring in others ...the U.N. or anybody that we can somehow convince to help fix this mess. But, we can't be seen as the ones authoring the fix. No one will trust us. Why should they? We already lost the war. The only question is how long it takes us to figure that out.

Posted at June 3, 2005 6:04 AM in response to Back to the Present

I've read that most people, when polled will refer to themselves as middle class, so most of us are probably in it, and very afraid that we may leave it due to some corporate whim.

But the use of the term is important as most people find identification with it. I think that the more we Democrats use the term, the more inclusive we will seem.

It is both inclusive and suggestive of "us versus them."

Posted at May 31, 2005 8:50 PM in response to Middle Matters