Got Religion? What is with all the pandering?

Hearing Hillary (God bless her) reach out to find a common ground with Pro-lifers and their Christian inclinations is part of a pattern.

Religion is now the only thing left in the the U.S. to soothe the masses. The Republican/NeoCon thrust has impaled Education, looking to skewer the employer/Health Care coupling, spear Social programs, kill Social Security and offer up the remaining middle class monies on staff to the wealthy.

So what is left? Religion! Hallelujah! The kick-off may well have come with Gibson's blood fest "Passion" through a continuum that reaches new levels in TIME magazine's cover story (2/7) of the top 25 most influential Evangelists in the country.

Religion appears more commonly in almost all media now from cable news, Reader's Digest to local newspapers. This appears as a deliberate push to soothe the masses discontent and distract them under the guise of "giving the public what they want."

More have finding religion right after their Patriotism well went dry. After religion crashes, what next?


C o v e r S t o r y

Evangelicals in America
American Evangelicalism seems to defy unity, let alone hierarchy. Yet its members share basic commitments. TIME's list focuses on those whose influence is on the rise or who have carved out a singular role

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She's invoked her faith many, many times. It's not new for her, at least.

Kerry never sought to push his Religion until very well into the election show. Hillary's public appeal to Pro-lifers is a subtle, albeit new, move as she feels her way to 2008. She is doing it because of the "apparent" new religiosity in America.

Actually in her early forties, married to a Moody trained pastor, both African American. And they really think Bush is a Christian!! Her big issues ARE abortion and gay marriage (go figure)--I had said pretty early that I was in the anti-war movement, and that we thought Bush was probably the anti-Christ.

Anyway, my prayer, my thought in the post election period was "Oh, Lord, WHAT ELSE can I do??!!" And I thought, I have to somehow reach out to SOMEONE on the Christian right, someone from, like, Moody Bible School (in Chicago.) Then this person walks right into my life, and we truly like each other from the start!

So, patience. One thing we both agreed on--the world is spinning into a real mess. So, we'll see. One of our young college graduates out of our Lutheran parish, a real supply sider when he was here listening to Rush (called me a #@# LIBERAL!!) went over to Romania as a peace corps volunteer. He has done a complete 180, seeing the danger of Bush.

Meanwhile my heart breaks--how can I tell my new friend just what the Repubs did in Ohio? Think I'll work on the Prince of Peace angle first.

Hillary's and John Kerry's faith need to be better known, hard as that is. I think Jim Wallis helps a lot.

they carry death with them -- leave them alone.
i'm from central illinois and the mere mention of moody's gives me the creeps -- all fire and brimstone and no love.