I mean the straw-man-blame-the-source thing is a bit dated now.

Try a fact offering in order to make your point. uh...You did have a point didn't you?

"Repentance and forgiveness? Okay, I'm ready to forgive. I never thought Evangelicals were REALLY as mean and nasty, as evil and hypocrtical as they were portraying themselves to be. Mostly I suspected they were just immature and easily led, like teenage kids wanting to be best friends with the school yard bully, so no one would realize how vulnerable they were."

I tend to look for the best in people. It always hurts me when lambs are lead astray. In this case, I think by now, and by the polls taken lately, the flock knows they have been had. No one can blame them for that as they were up against a very high powered propaganda machine.

When Pat Robertson supports a man like Guiliani, it truly shows how deep his moral backbone really went. If I were an Evangelical Christian, I'd be mortified.

I freely admit I am very biased against organizations that represent themselves as having a superior morale ground, but turn out to be full of avarice and self-serving power-mongering. There is nothing nice about a group of people who stir up hatred of others, be it gay people, ethinic minorities, women, or people of other faiths. Especially when it is in the name of God. It's why I loathe the Taliban. I hate intolerance when it's coupled with violence toward the human spirit's need for freedom and individuality.

If you doubt the Radical Evangelical community is guilty of these things then you are either blind or so brainwashed you can't see the forest for the trees. The followers of the flim-flam political types that have taken advantage of people in the name of God are very dangerous people. Their followers are not to be blamed. I believe many wonderful people joined the Evangelical movement for pure reasons. They just trusted the wrong people. It happens to us all. I can't say I have never been swayed by a charismatic person who wanted to lead me in the wrong direction.

The proof that the Evangelical movement is dying is evidenced by the confusion of the Evangelical movement voters about who to follow. They can't pick a leader. People at the top, like Pat Robertson, are deperately trying to keep the power-block together even as members of the group are waking up and realizing the hypocrisy of some its most passionate leaders. His support of Guiliani borders on heretical.

The fact that so many political icons of the Evangelical Movement have been charged with crimes or have been exposed as having the "wrong" sexual orientation, can't poosible be overlooked by those who were taught to harshly judge anyone without impeccable moral standards.

The large number of voters who changed the balance of the House of Representatives speaks loudly about the abandonment of the once-loyal believers. To their credit they are now joining with more liberal citizens to take back our government. I'm afraid the remaining sheep will find themselves bleating on a hilside all alone.

I wish the true Evangelical movement all the success in the world as they purge those who have given their belief system a bad name. I believe our world will be better place after this is accomplished.

A half-page ad in today's N-S (that's page A-5, hardcopy)caused me to think about this post from Carole. It appears that evangelical Christians are recently atuned to the Global Warming issue, too, if the efforts of the Evangelical Climate Coalition are any indication.

For background info on the group, see a recent story in Christianity Today at http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/februaryweb-only/106-34.0.html.

(Very busy today...talk among yourselves ;-)