God’s Own Party. They’ve claimed that for years. A political party in this country has hijacked God. They’ve turned him into a pompous ass who only cares about rich, white republicans who love to rewrite history. And their gullible, brain-washed masses have sucked it all in, even when it goes against everything in the Bible. I do not recognize this "god" they have CREATED. To say THIS is a "Christian" country is a terrible example of the Christianity I know. Theirs is the god of greed and the "You're own your own" mentality.
My God doesn’t hate. My God doesn’t lie. My God doesn’t create division. My God said whatever you do for the least of these, you do for me. He cured the sick and lame. He didn’t tell the poor to get out of his sight. My God didn’t tell the sick and lame to pay up first only for them to find out he was never going to heal them in the first place, or that they were going to die because they couldn’t afford to pay him. When they were hungry, He fed them, He didn't tell them to starve. My God didn’t praise the rich temple lords for screwing the poor, He threw the rich out of His temple. So who is this "god" the republicans speak of?
Jesus told his disciples they had to put down their belongings in order to follow Him, and they did. So how did we get from there to it being okay for "God’s" people in this "Christian" country to make sure the rich get richer while the poor suffer and die? How much money does one person need? How many cars? How many houses, boats, planes? Why is it an abomination in this "Christian" country for those who have to give a little so those who don’t can SURVIVE because the rich stole their money and their jobs? If this were a "Christian" nation, "God’s" people wouldn’t be spending so much time dividing the democrats from the republicans, rich against poor, white against everyone who isn’t.
God either exists or he doesn’t. If he exists, then we are ALL related, even republicans and democrats, atheists and agnostics, gay or straight, black, white and all the beautiful colors in between. Adam and Eve, anyone? We don’t have to like each other. But My God loves all His children, and if He does exist, He wants us to at least get along. My God says we are all forgiven, regardless of our political affiliation. To believe any different is not "Christian."
If we were a "Christian" nation, our media wouldn’t lie every time they open their mouths and doing their best to divide us and encourage stupidity, violence and hate. If we were a "Christian" nation, there would be no Hannity, O’Reilly or Doocy because they would widely be seen and recognized as the hypocritical liars they are, far from being the "Christians" they claim to be. If they’re "Christians," I want no part of their "god." And Glenn Beck? Does he really pray before his shows in this "Christian" nation? Because if he does, he needs to think long and hard about exactly who it is he’s praying to, because MY God would not be telling him it’s okay to spew his insane hatred. And, Lord, Ann Coulter, going on these shows and lying, knowing she’s lying, she’s proud of it, and deliberately spinning up the crazies, WHILE SHE’S WEARING A CROSS. Who does HER cross represent? Not MY God.
This "Christian" nation needlessly destroyed two huge cities and killed thousands and thousands with a bomb just to prove we could. This "Christian" nation invaded another nation for oil and revenge, and "Christians" applauded because THAT "Christian" was a republican. They put their party before their god. This "Christian" nation thinks it’s fine and dandy to take our tax dollars to spend trillions killing God’s children in other countries and making corporations richer but refuses to spend on helping the poor in our own "Christian" country. This "Christian" nation, with a "Christian" republican president, tortured – tortured and killed – innocent men, women and children, KNOWINGLY and willingly.
This "Christian" nation has the highest prison population in the world. This "Christian" nation has, if not the highest, then close, rates of all the worst stuff in the world, and falls among the lowest of the good stuff in the world. This "Christian" nation has devolved to where thousands of people have to line up at medical camps – here in the good ol’ "Christian" USA – to get free medical care they cannot otherwise afford. For years, poor countries overseas have had the benefit of these volunteer medical staffs, many from the good ol’ USA, to give them medical treatment. Now, these same volunteers are HERE, in this "poor" "Christian" nation.
These "Christians" want to take us back to the time women didn’t have birth control so the boss of the household could keep her barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen where she belonged, where we couldn’t wear pants, couldn’t go to college, couldn’t be scientists, doctors or lawyers, where a husband could slap the little wife around to keep her in line, where blacks knew their place in the world and stayed there. Where’s the Christianity in that?
In this "Christian" nation, republicans, who claim this is a "Christian" country, prove over and over again that deceit is their biggest asset. They thrive on lies. They thrive on hate. They thrive on division. They thrive on power and money. They thrive on violence. THAT’s a "Christian?"
In this "Christian" nation, 2,000 years later, I’m going to go out on a limb and state that God has NOT changed his mind or his rules and said it’s okay to screw the poor, steal every dime you can get, and break all rules to keep and retain power. I don’t care what Doug Coe of "The Family" or any of these other religious hucksters says. These "Family" members and "Christian" republicans need to step back and figure out which God they’re worshiping, because I don't recognize theirs.
There are no "buts," "ors" or "excepts" here:
Thou shalt not have any gods before me. (Political parties included.)
No idols other than God. (Money, power?)
Honor thy father and mother. (And if they don’t have insurance, let 'em die.)
Thou shalt not murder. (Unless they’re non-white.)
Thou shalt not commit adultery. (Oh, snap.)
Thou shalt not steal. (Unless you’re rich.)
Thou shalt not lie. (Unless you’re Republican)
Jesus was not born in America. He was born over there, over there where people have, um, nice "tans," and he was one of them. If he came back today, he would face the same fate, and it would be the white racist "Christian" republicans leading the way.
But it would be nice to live in a REAL Christian country, wouldn’t it? We’d all get along, we wouldn’t need political parties, no one would need anything, and it wouldn’t matter what color we were. Maybe one of these days we can truly be a Christian country. I don’t know about you, but I’m not holding my breath.