I feel "Under God"

I'm a Christian. As Jim Gaffigan would say, I'm like a Shiite Christian. I go to church every Sunday, I read the Bible as much as possible, and I help run one of the biggest Christian fellowships on campus. Unfortunately, I'm still completely conflicted about my religion and let me tell you; the Bush administration isn't helping my faith in Christian America.

David Rees' critique of American right wing Christin subculture, and Bush's pseudo-religious politics are dead on. Christianity in America is so ridiculously mindless that if Christ were engaging American culture today, I can assure you that there'd be a whole lot of tables being turned over. Whether it's the millions of copies of the "Left Behind" novels that puts filet mignon on Tim Lahaye's dinner table every night, or Bush's spray painting of Christ's name over everything he does, there is absolutely no reverence for the name of God. Not a single moment of consideration of whether or not Jesus would be a proud middle class gun toting Republican. Just a whole lot of presumption, justifying your crap with the Lord as a means to a political end.

Living in society where Christianity is synonymous with pro-war, anti-gay, pro-life rhetoric is suffocatingly claustrophobic, and so frustrating that it makes you want to throw it all out the window and disown everything and everyone that carries a Christian name tag. Rightfully so as well, because I'm pretty sure that Jesus would.

But we're all hypocritical in our own unique ways, so I guess this ought to humble me more than get me flustered. But whatever, I'm flustered.

David Rees' is spot on. Still have no clue why Voltron has a suit on though...