Christianity Has Come to This?

Is this what Christianity in this country has come to? The Traditional Values Coalition ("empowering people of faith through knowledge") endorses Bush's ambition to torture people and calls on churches throughout the nation to lobby in its support. Bob Ramsey points out some of the distortions and errors in the coalition's justification for this affront to the faith.

This is what political influence has wrought on the Christian Right. Whatever vestiges of "Christian" are left are rapidly being stamped out. Have they no shame? Have they no respect left for their supposed Lord? As Ramsey says, blasphemy, not a word I use often or easily.

Update Jesus' version of the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Traditional Values Coalition version: "Do unto others as they do unto you, maybe moreso." WWJT? (Who would Jesus torture?)

Obsidian Wings digs into the Bible to understand what a proper Christian view should be. How sad that a self-professed former Christian understands Christian values better than a pastor. Would that this "pastor" and his followers would read Isaiah 59:3-9.