Losing My Religion

Oh, my…..

Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1988, supported Bush's re-election last year and said he believed Bush is blessed by God…Robertson also told viewers of his "700 Club" television program that God had told him Bush would win re-election in a "blowout."

Speaking on the same program Monday, Robertson said “killing Chavez would be cheaper than starting a war to oust him. Getting rid of Chavez would stop Venezuela from becoming a ‘launching pad’ for communist influence and Muslim extremism," Robertson said.
"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said. "We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator."

The fundamental problem with Fundamentalists would appear to be a lack of any type of tolerance or love for their fellow man. It is ‘their way’ or the ‘highway to hell.’ Apparently, this now includes actually offing any person who disagrees with them.

No turning the other cheek for this crowd. Let’s turn loose another Eric Rudolph and blow up some more medical clinics and the Olympics. If this should occur anywhere in the world, but here…we call these folks ‘terrorists.’

We focus on ‘nut job’ clerics in the Middle East when they talk about killing people. Here, we just refer to them as folks with a ‘personal point of view.’ I struggle to see the difference at times.

I for one am growing weary on a few levels, but lately it does seem to focus in one arena.

Slowly, well maybe not so slowly, the conservative right-wing Christians have come to believe that they are entitled by God to tell the rest of the world what to think. Let me be very clear that I have no issue in declaring that I am a Christian. I have no qualms in what I believe or whom I believe I ultimately am held responsible to.

In that vein, I am tired of my beliefs being highjacked by those who would use the name of God to further their personal agenda and platforms. I guess for me it makes very little difference where these religious leaders currently live, Baghdad or Virginia.

In the end, the true nature of these leaders tend to ‘pop’ to the surface, and generally that reality has very little to do with the God I believe in. I am not as naïve as to believe that either the ‘right’ or the ‘left’ has the definitive answer to anything; but, as a unified group, a great deal can be achieved.

Whether it was Jim “pass the Kool-Aid” Jones, those fabulous Bakkers (Jim and Tammy Faye) or Jimmy “How much is that hooker in the window?” Swaggert, there has never really been a shortage of nut cases preaching the word of God. It can be argued that many Americans sent money to these clowns; usually those who could least afford it.

But now it would seem we have a much larger base of support for the likes of Pat Robertson and so on. I will give you that at times I am amused and entertained by the comedy channel, better known as the Trinity Broadcasting Network. I believe Benny Hinn rivals Benny Hill for sheer comic relief.

I just never thought that it would come to a point where these fools actually swayed any opinion, let alone an entire country.