My train of thought was actually set in motion by this local story a friend sent.
Short version: Red Stick bans Sunday wine and liquor sales, except for bar-restaurants. There's a proposal to join the 20th if not the 21st century and repeal the ban.
One opponent of rescinding the ban is actually trying to expand the proposal, in hopes that a broader measure will light a fire under the Jeeesus freaks and "galvanize opposition."
Typical. And it got me thinking about how ironic it is that the biggest liars, crooks, charlatans, and assorted scum in American public life seem to ALWAYS affix themselves to Jeeesus with a bond that's tighter than SuperGlue. Of course, their proclamations of piety are in inverse ratio to their behavior. As if words alone were some sort of magic "Get Out of Hell Free" card.
(side note: Team Bush is particularly unique in this regard--they possess a compulsion to lie about even the smallest matters. It's like they can't help themselves).
Or maybe they just don't believe any of it anyway, and simply use the rhetoric as a cover while they rip us off at astonishing levels...including the ultimate price for several thousand American soldiers (and, lest we forget, Team Bush Christianity places NO value on Iraqi life--zero).
You know, I wish some genuine Christians--that is, those who don't just proclaim their faith, but act it as well--would come out and say in no uncertain terms that just because people like Shrub, Tom DeLay, Ralph Reed, and so on claim to be Christians, it doesn't mean that they are.
Charles Manson claimed he was innocent. I don't believe him either.
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