Slog - Comments on Headline of the Day http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27 The AP: Evangelicals warn of politicizing faith We wouldn't want to see that happen, now would we?... Copyright 2008 Fri, 09 May 2008 07:24:32 -0800 Fri, 09 May 2008 15:32:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Faith is a shitty buttfuck.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1020924 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1020924 Religion Fri, 09 May 2008 07:54:20 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger They don't want to politicize it if it will not get them more power: And don't you think it is a little late to be saying this?!?!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1020929 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1020929 Religion Fri, 09 May 2008 08:04:04 -0800 Comment by boonimusprime Don't you politicize faith, leave it to the experts! --Evangelicals

]]> boonimusprime http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1020940 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1020940 Religion Fri, 09 May 2008 08:22:41 -0800 Comment by Greg This should be under the Dept. of Barns, Horses Missing.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1020974 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1020974 Religion Fri, 09 May 2008 09:06:21 -0800 Comment by brett BWAH HA HAH.

my fundy christian relatives all loved Bush and rubbed him and his Iraq war in everyone's faces when his approval ratings were high and opposing the Iraq war made you "objectively pro-Saddam."

they all said things like "Bush is a man of God. He's a good christian."

now that he's the least popular president of the modern age and the iraq war has been revealed to be a fraud and a quagmire, they're all backing away from their hero worship and saying things like "Actually, I'm not sure if Bush is even really a christian..."

Bush's failed presidency has essentially broken the christianist stranglehold on the right. the evangelical bloc is, and deserves to be, permanently marginalized.

]]> brett http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1021046 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1021046 Religion Fri, 09 May 2008 10:20:43 -0800 Comment by Mr. Joshua The whole point is the "evangelical bloc" isn't supposed to be a bloc. Christianity shouldn't be a demographic or a political party, seeing as people from every race, nation, language and background are all present in God's kingdom, according to the Bible. Christians in other nations very often hold very different political positions, and to determine orthodoxy on the political spectrum would require marginalizing those Christian brothers and sisters.

This is not the "evangelical movement" changing its mind, this is one generation seeking to amend the abuse of the previous one.

]]> Mr. Joshua http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1021213 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1021213 Religion Fri, 09 May 2008 11:53:56 -0800 Comment by butterw Look guys, this is progress. The faithful aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, but I encourage them in their attempts to think coherently. Next step, heliocentrism!

]]> butterw http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1021525 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/headline_of_the_day_27#c1021525 Religion Fri, 09 May 2008 15:32:01 -0800