I read an article at Salon about a Democrat who is apparently appealing successfully to Christian voters. And while I was reading it I thought to myself: well, you know, why not? Why should the party that (comparatively, anyway) is about compassion, inclusion, caring for the poor, reaching out even to the undeserving, and so forth, not be appealing to people who really value the message of the Gospels.
Of course, this assumes that most of the Christians the Republicans have sucked into their orbit really do care about the Christ of the Gospels and his actual message to the taxpayers of his day. Most of them may be people who genuinely believe that Jesus said that the Lord helps those who helps themselves. But it's worth a try, surely? Worth a try to get them to understand that their values are closer to, say, mine than those of George W. Bush?
Anyway, for what it's worth, I gave this issue my attention in two of my blogs.
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