Posted by Sean Taylor on October 10, 2007 at 12:16pm
Coming from a position of Christianity, and a Christian position that seeks to reveal many of the fallacies of the conservative fundamentalist slant in my chosen faith, I found these two blog entriesreally interesting.
I think the article names in the links below say plenty all by themselves.
From the above link: I remember about eight years ago when then presidential candidate GeorgeW. Bush repeatedly claimed that he would restore honor to thepresidency, soiled as it had been by our previous president's infamousaffair. I remember hoping he would succeed. But a new kind of shame hascome to the office and to our nation as reports surface about ourgovernment's secret authorization of torture. We all share in thisshame.
From the above link: However the vast majority of Americans, especially those who describethemselves as born again Christians, are solidly in support of Bush,and even question the Christian identity and commitment of those whodisapprove of Bush...
The only problem is that somehow hisaggressive American-ness has been identified with his being aChristian. But we in India cannot see the war as the work of aChristian.
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What I'd love to see isa candidate who is either a conservative democrat or a liberalrepublican, someone who supports the poor and elderly and opposes aproactive war but supports a strong military, who seeks equity intaxation across all income levels, but also encourages responsibleexercise of free speech in media and art without creating censorshipoptions (prefer a sort of responsible self-censorship as self-sacrificefor the greater good and a willingness to discuss what that meanswithout resorting to bipartisan name-calling), and open discussion onhot bed topics such as abortion and illegal immigration without havingto castigate either side as evil or "the enemy" (at worst) or stupiduninformed religious hicks or liberal nutjobs (at best).
But sadly, I don't expect to find that anytime soon.
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