Not Christian Enough

These People Are NOT Christians

150 leading evangelical pastors met in Texas last week to decide which Republican presidential candidate they, as a group, would support. There is simply no biblical model for this. These men, most of whom are dogmatic, hard-line biblical literalists, routinely violate their own professed beliefs by organizing politically and involving the church in the political process. Look all you want, there is not one single example of Jesus Christ organizing a rally to overthrow Herod or Caesar. Not one instance of the Apostle Paul painting up “Vote Romney” signs and encouraging the faithful to throw their support behind an ordained elder of a false religion that prostitutes the Gospel of Jesus Christ as its veneer of legitimacy in order to deceive. Seeing the Reverend Franklin Graham, son of renowned evangelist Billy Graham, make a mealy-mouthed case for supporting Romney, a Mormon, while continuing to encourage doubt about President Obama’s profession of born-again Christian faith, marks this man—who comes off as unhinged and irrational, as most extremists, Christian or not, do—as blatantly unstable. But white conservatives, lost in a Matrix of their own, see what they want to see and will grasp at any rationale possible to make a case for their blatant, unbiblical and unprincipled hatred, yes hatred, of Barack Obama that does not include the word “racism.” This is how deeply in denial these people are. So co-opted by hate they’d send forth their chief priest to crucify Christ afresh with this complete abdication of biblical principles and grudging, indirect validation of antichrist heresy while showing hate to one of God’s children—all of this in clear violation of the bible these phonies profess to follow. Wasn’t it just last week that these very same people were saying they couldn’t support Obama because he’s a Muslim? And here’s Franklin Graham, Friday, making excuses for Romney’s Mormonism— “…after all, we’re not voting for a pastor-in-chief.” Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. [Matthew 23:13] These folks remind me of people who are clearly and obviously drug addicts who are in denial about their disease. Everybody can see it. Everybody knows what the problem is. But when you confront the addict, they fly into a rage of denial. These people are racists. It is clearly and plainly obvious. They are addicted to hate. But they have money and power and the company of millions of evangelical racist homophobes whose conscience is assuaged by this veneer of righteousness even as they blithely go about violating the very word of God they portend to espouse. They don’t hate Obama because he’s a liberal. They hate Obama because he’s black. And, because he’s black, Obama could not possibly be a Christian or, at least, not Christian enough for them. But these lying, phony, self-righteous hypocrites lack the courage to confront the disease of hatred which holds them in its grip. Worse, no one seems willing to call these phonies on the obvious source of their opposition to the president. Nobody wants to stand up and say, "Hey, that guy is a drug addict," even though his condition is obvious.

A January 8th CBS News Poll said that 60% of Republican voters said it was important to them that a presidential candidate share their religious beliefs. If what they are saying is true, they should be supporting the president—a born-again Christian self-made bootstraps family man with an unassailable, solid track record of church-going who demonstrates, more than any candidate in any party in any field, Christian values and the imitation of the personal example of Jesus Christ. But these same people not only do not support the president, they openly revile him. Why? Is it his political positions? Abortion? Gay rights? Healthcare Reform? Mitt Romney has held all of those very same positions, and here’s Franklin Graham making a case for him. These conservatives are simply liars. Their bigotry has nothing to do with politics or values. Barack Obama Is A Black Man And They Hate Him. And I believe I’d actually respect these people more if they’d just come to terms with that. The group compromised on the racist, gay-hating, contraception-banning lunatic Rick Santorum, a Catholic who is not a born-again Christian and who has absolutely no shot at the nomination and even less at a general election win. That there was even a conversation about Romney proves, beyond any shadow of doubt, that, despite their righteous claims, These People Are Not Christians.