Questions Christian voters need to ask themselves

I think all Christians need to ask them self four questions. If they can answer YES to all four, then they should vote Republican.

(1) Do you enjoy being tied to the tail of the GOP like a tin can?

(2) Do you want to be first one in your neighborhood to have your son come home in a box. ?

(3) Can you watch Bush on TV and not puke ?

(4) Would you prefer to murder your child rather than see them grow up gay ?

For one thing, fundamentalists/evangelicals make up, as a whole, somewhat less than 25% of all Christians in America. And even in that group, there's a growing bloc that does not subscribe to the politics of the Religious Right.

The remaining 75% or more are members of mainstream denominations, and tend to spread their votes around much like the non-churchgoing population. If anything, I would think that members of certain denominations (Episcopalians, UCC, Lutherans, Quakers, Methodists outside the deep south, and even a sizable number of Roman Catholics) would tend to vote progressive rather than conservative as a matter of fidelity to their religious faith.

Just because right-wing fundies have a grip on televangelism and some of the megachurches doesn't mean they are the only, or even the dominant, voice for Christians, most of whom get their religious practice neither from megachurches nor their TV set. Decreeing that "Christian voters" automatically means right-wingers because of Pat Robertson and the Southern Baptist Convention is about as much of a non-sequiter as claiming that "all Jewish voters are neo-cons" because of prominent Jews like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Norman Podhoretz and Joe Lieberman.

I'm just callin' other Christians out. Or at least those who are trying to be real.

voted for Bush over Kerry. The majority of Jewish voters did not support Bush and neither did the majority of secular voters did not support Bush.
http://people-press.org/commentary/display.php3?AnalysisID=103

When and if these facts go away and the feeling that Christian groups are not susceptible to Bush type BS the criticism of Christians will also go away.

(6) Do you think claiming to know the mind of God perfectly on any issue is not Blasphemy?

(7) Do you think that it doesn't matter that more innocent people are killed by War than guilty ones?

(8) Do you never wonder if what some people refer to as their "Faith" might just possibly be a personality disorder mistaken for, or actively mis-represented as, Faith?

This is fun; more later . . .

Or does it mean you can only have sex when you are out of the country?

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