Ho hum.

Until your faith changes your behavior, until it causes you to take a strong position, until your faith is more important then party, that "faith" is nothing more then a nice story you tell so you can feel better about yourself. James 2:14-25

The dems are running on faith, it's just that more of us don't agree w/it.

The worst thing about the dems is that they make the reps look good. Which is inexusable. Obama is another melodramatic facilator. Nothing on earth could make the present administration look competant. But the Dems have done it. They should disband immeadiately for the good of the nation.

The reps deserve a sound thrashing. They are venal and inadequate. And the dems walk around with startled looks on thier faces.

Man is venal and inadequate, but only Republicans understand that.

While reaching out to the faithful is an important goal for politicians, they should not fall victim of the same errors that other have. The idea that we can run a "faith based" govenment is against all that our democracy stands for and must be avoided at all costs.

Excapt that our Republic is based on faith.

Man can also be other things. Unless he is a republican of these times.

Apparently democrats can not muster the presense of mind for venality. Inadequacy they can do.

I don't buy all that christian self-loathing. If one admits to venality one should change oneself or get out of politics. Be rhobust about it and do something. Wallowing in your own vileness is just indulgent and not rightous in the least. The Christian habit of saying everyone is venal leads to all sorts of allowances for disgraceful behavior. Christians easily make the shift from admitting venality to condoning it. Gaza at the moment is a case in point.

See.

ex, Examples of vileness on the left abound, how about some examples of vileness from the right.

erp;

Senator John McCain.

exclab;

Yes, it's certainly arguable that GOP successes during the Bush administration owe more to the Democratic Party than the GOP.

As always, AOG, I bow to the master's wit, except I don't consider McCain to be on the right.

Neither do I consider him on the left or in the middle. I consider him to be out of luck, out of contention and out of his mind.

So speaking out about God and religion can turn out just to be a cynical, manipulative ploy to garner votes from overly credulous voters? Is that what I'm hearing?

Robert:

You more than most know that your external pose has nothing to do with your internal belief.

*sigh* The main problem with Christianity is that anyone can call themselves a Christian, thus inviting others to consider them templates and exemplars. This allows the critics to freely ignore the real thing (Like Mother Teresa.)

True continuity between a true belief and action opens up possiblities that are non-existent to those who believe such continuity brings no benefits. They fail, because they fail to believe.

Robert: That's the whole point, not he who says, "Lord, Lord," enters the kingdom of heaven, but he who hears the will of the Father and does it.

Just talk won't do it. Let's see some judicial appointments. We all know that politicians are poiticians. We don't expect them to be otherwise. Give me a cynical opportunist who makes good on his manipulative posturing to save the unborn over a cynical opportunist who is just trying to flim-flam us with cheap talk.

What you're all saying is that the only thing that counts is the walk. Talk is useless. Sounds good to me.

Robert:

Exactly. You're a Christian.