I've mentioned my African-American Conservative/Republican Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christian friend in the comments a number of times before, but the email I got from him today was worthy of a diary all its own.
Seems that a strong anti-Obama email from someone else has driven my friend fully into the Obama camp. And in doing so, he's also taken a major step towards becoming a Progressive Christian as well.
Details on the flipside.
Seems that my friend was sent an email warning of a super-liberal future if Barack Obama was elected president. That note read simply:
From WSJ - an outline of the "change" that can be expected if Obama is elected:
http://online.wsj.com/...
My friend's response:
I do not worry about the election. If our theology is true then God puts in office the man or woman HE chooses. He put Ronald Regan despite the fact that he was divorced and his wife dabbled in astrology. His term is viewed asa success. Yet Jimmy Carter one of the truly Christian presidents is viewed as a failure. GOD put Bill Clinton despite the fact he cheated on his wife while Governor of Arkansas. He put Valdmir Putin in office in Moscow knowing he was former KGB. Dennis Kucinich is a nut job and God knows that too. Yet Dennis is still a member of Congress.
Despite 4 years of the Bush I liked and 8 years of his son, abortion is still the law of the land. We are more dependent on oil from the middle east. The deficit has trippled even with the cost of war factored out. Yet during 8 years of Clinton I enjoyed economic happiness and the US was running a surplus.
The bottomline is chill out. Vote. Trust that God knows what he is doing. Be glad you don't have his job.
Hope you are doing well. Thanks for caring to send me the email.
The sky will not fall if McCain or Obama gets into office. God will still be at work.
I plan to send this to all of my clergy friends, the rest of my fundamentalist friends, and, as I'm doing now, you, the general public. I think he sums up the perfect answer to the theosphere's arguments against Obama. It's also a way to get people to find a release for their buyer's remorse after watching the evil done by "The Bush I liked's son."