Re: RE: US evangelicals warn Republicans
From Steve: You made several mistakes. First, you assumed that the BBC has anything intelligent to say about American evangelicals.
Actually, the BBC was just reporting the fact that at a recent meeting in Washington, a group of conservative leaders 'said the current perception among evangelical Christians was that the Republican majority was not doing enough for them.' (BBCNews.com) The BBC has a Washington bureau and can report and observe that fact as good as the next news organization in the area can. I don't see what the BBC has to do with any of this.
Second, you assumed that evangelicals as a group support the war.
No, I didn't assume. I distinctly recall how much God and Country were dramatically tied together by Bush since 9/11 to better sway patriotic evangelical Americans — which there are many — towards supporting the war. 'Would a good Christian man lead us in the wrong direction?' Many doubted that was even possible as carefully veiled praise for Bush (and some not so carefully veiled praise for Bush) echoed through church sanctuaries throughout the country. Sure, many former supporters of the war — from all stratas and viewpoints — have come around in the meantime, but it doesn't mean that a whopping amount of them didn't support Bush's war before, but now they will admit that they were duped (and aren't too happy about it, either).
Third, you resorted to your usual tactic of hyperbolizing everything
Sorry, that's just my style. Kidding.
The insulting insinuation that evangelicals turned a blind eye to the war so Bush would help them persecute homosexuals is juvenile patter from the moonbat fringe of the extreme left.
I never said that evangelicals turned a blind eye to the war. I think that they were just snowed like anybody else that thought it was a good idea for more than two seconds. Maybe they just thought that Bush, a fellow evangelical, was simply incapable of waging such a misguided war effort because of his proximity to the Christian ideals he so readily associates with himself. Hey man, some people are crazy and gullible. You know, 'He's a godly man. He believes the way I do about gays and abortion, too — I trust that he's right about the Iraq war.' Trust me, I've heard nearly that same reasoning spoken aloud. Sad, but true.
Evangelicals supported Bush because they were pretty sure that one or more Supreme Court appointments would occur during his terms. They also believed him when he said he would start backing the government out of its enforced charity business.
But to date, which was my main point, this same general group of evangelicals seem to be unsatisfied by Bush and his administration. Maybe we're all just fed up Bush for a bevy of our own reasons (reasons which are multiplying by the moment)...
Actually, the BBC was just reporting the fact that at a recent meeting in Washington, a group of conservative leaders 'said the current perception among evangelical Christians was that the Republican majority was not doing enough for them.' (BBCNews.com) The BBC has a Washington bureau and can report and observe that fact as good as the next news organization in the area can. I don't see what the BBC has to do with any of this.
Second, you assumed that evangelicals as a group support the war.
No, I didn't assume. I distinctly recall how much God and Country were dramatically tied together by Bush since 9/11 to better sway patriotic evangelical Americans — which there are many — towards supporting the war. 'Would a good Christian man lead us in the wrong direction?' Many doubted that was even possible as carefully veiled praise for Bush (and some not so carefully veiled praise for Bush) echoed through church sanctuaries throughout the country. Sure, many former supporters of the war — from all stratas and viewpoints — have come around in the meantime, but it doesn't mean that a whopping amount of them didn't support Bush's war before, but now they will admit that they were duped (and aren't too happy about it, either).
Third, you resorted to your usual tactic of hyperbolizing everything
Sorry, that's just my style. Kidding.
The insulting insinuation that evangelicals turned a blind eye to the war so Bush would help them persecute homosexuals is juvenile patter from the moonbat fringe of the extreme left.
I never said that evangelicals turned a blind eye to the war. I think that they were just snowed like anybody else that thought it was a good idea for more than two seconds. Maybe they just thought that Bush, a fellow evangelical, was simply incapable of waging such a misguided war effort because of his proximity to the Christian ideals he so readily associates with himself. Hey man, some people are crazy and gullible. You know, 'He's a godly man. He believes the way I do about gays and abortion, too — I trust that he's right about the Iraq war.' Trust me, I've heard nearly that same reasoning spoken aloud. Sad, but true.
Evangelicals supported Bush because they were pretty sure that one or more Supreme Court appointments would occur during his terms. They also believed him when he said he would start backing the government out of its enforced charity business.
But to date, which was my main point, this same general group of evangelicals seem to be unsatisfied by Bush and his administration. Maybe we're all just fed up Bush for a bevy of our own reasons (reasons which are multiplying by the moment)...
posted by Strother | 3:58 PM
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