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I warn you in advance, if you read this and are offended, it's your own fault for reading this, take it with a grain of salt cause I don't have a problem with moderates and Republicans or even Realistic Democrats. I voted Bush, deal with it. The latter part is just some comments flowing off the top of my head after 1 in the morning and if you don't like them and can't laugh about it, then I suggest that you take polotics too seriously and perhaps you have some messed up priorities. This said, :
Well of course a Conservative Christian doesn't have to be Republican, it was just that in the last election, the idea of voting for a papist that even the papacy doesn't approve of as vs. voteing for Bush (a Methodist) the only way you could vote is Bush. Plus, who really wants to see John Kerry's face on the TV all the time? The man is uglier than the backend of his parties maskot releasing from that end the same stuff that came out of his mouth during his speeches. And then their's the Edwards Issue, do you have any idea how confusing that would be for us who occaissionally discuss The Puritan John Edwards?
Then their's Bush, Bush is appealing to the common man, he's evangelically inclined, he seems willing to take risk, and he doesn't need the endorsement of France and Germany, and besides that, look at France and Germany, you really wanna take their advice? No offense to the French and the German people, they have produced some very nice things, but the last time France was really great was under the "Petite Corporal" (and who speaks French? Nobody, cause it's unspeakable, that's why they have a language council), and Germany well, I'll leave them alone for now. The point, Bush is American for Americans.
Bush, not so good for music, perhaps not so good for drinking or baked beans, but for decorating houses and running democracies, yeah, Bush is good.
In reality, democracy isn't really biblical, people (including Kings and other Aristocracy) are just too depraved to rule themselves effectively and frankly, not everybody can be cheif, it's just not realistic. Even Athens, the "Birthplace of Democracy" eventually abadoned and despised the idea. Further, democracy, and the American way of life is based on ideas not necessarily from Christians and the Bible but from "enlightenment" philosophers. In reality, we should realize that America indoctrinates it's people, the people who go to our churches and sit with us everyday, and even we ourselves who live here, we're all indoctrinated into what you might call the Religion of America, that America is good b/c America is based on Freedom of Choice and Personal Responsibility and the Ability of the Individual to Claim his place in society, that American's are basically good and that they're seeking good for those around them. America endorses a religion of non-religion, of pluralist and relativist ideas and then claims tolerance as the cheif virtue by which all men must subscribe. And the worst part is, we buy it, we drug ourselves into believing it, and we ignore and slander anyone who says otherwise and pass them off as loons b/c their joys are in something other than America. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rantoff.gif" alt="" />
Brother Luke
