God-dar… like radar?
Posted Thursday, May 12th, 2005 at 9:00 am
My friend Greg - currently a ridiculously happy resident of Singapore - sent me this link about “God-dar.” I’m a little slow in the head right now, so it took me a few minutes after I read through the article to figure it out. I think it is like “radar,” but I’m humbly open to correction. The article addresses more the ways that politics and religion get mixed together. The article quotes Bob Schieffer from CBS News, who,”…concluded incredulously that this was a religious country and the divide was now not between classes or races, but between those who attended church regularly and those who didn’t.”While I’m not sure if the divide he refers to isn’t ultimately still influenced by class and race - since class and race still divide (read James 2:1-7) those who attend church regularly - I still think that American Christians are being awkwardly compromised in their faith by a blind adherence to politicians that claim a ‘born-again’ evangelically general faith heritage, even if their actual political philosophy and policy-making are questionably biblical. Or worse.
