January 19, 2005
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Well, thats it. The Bulls 7 game winning streak is now over. Oh well.
It was fun while it lasted. Time to start a new one. The thing is, they
have played a lot of easy teams lately, and still have a few easy teams
coming up. Hopefully, they can pick it up again.Today I was in another training class. This one is going to last the
rest of this week and all of next week. There are just 3 of us in this
class, so I might actually learn something this time.There was this author on the Daily Show last night. His name is Jim
Wallis and the book was called “God’s Politics” and he is an
evangilistical preacher. Although I very rarely agree with religous
types, this guy made a hellva a lot of sense. He says that the right
gets it wrong and the left just doesn’t get it. Basically, he was
saying that the right looks at gay marriage and abortion as big moral
issues, but he says that the homeless, the war in Iraq, and the
environment are bigger moral issues, and you know what, he is right. I
was always very bothered by these so called conservatives that put the
false threat of gay marriage over the real threat of the war in Iraq.
Regardless of your stance on gay marriage, how can banning something
that is already illegal more important than the death and destruction
of a bullshit war in Iraq? How can any so called “good Christian” be
more appalled by gay marriage and abortion than war? It doesn’t make
sense. Getting back to the book and the author, he says that God is
neither Republican or Democrat, which I completely agree with, yet for
some reason, both sides, especially Republicans, believe that God is on
their side. Shit, the Republicans think that they speak for God!
Although I don’t know this guy’s take on gays or gay marriage, I found
his core belief, that peace is more important, to be something I agree
with 100%. I have included a link to his site here:http://www.sojo.net/
Check it out. I shows that not all Christians are hellbent on fighting
gay marriage, but instaed find other things to be more important.
Comments (1)
A year and a half ago, my nun and I were driving to a convention in Cincinnati (Yes, I have a nun. I’m Protestant, but I still have a nun. Everyone should have one, I think.
). Anyway, we managed to get on the topic of politics and religion and everything else. On the subject of gay marriage, she said pretty much the same thing you’re saying. She doesn’t understand why everyone is making such a big fuss over it when there are so many issues of greater importance that need our attention.
My theory is that it’s a way of activating the Religious Right. I mean, everyone can agree that war should come to an end, that we should find a way to fix hunger, provide universal health care, blah blah blah. But it’s a lot quicker to activate a voting base if you start parading a subculture of “sinners hell-bent on destroying family values.”