I'm a former fundaloon turned moderate believer, turned progressive believer turned atheist.
It just occurred to me an hour or so ago that this is Good Friday, the day Christian tradition recognizes as the day Jesus, who committed no crime, but out of pure love was willing to accept punishment for the crimes of all humankind, was brutally tortured and executed by the particularly cruel method of crucifixion.
I have let go of the myth. Jesus does not have to have been resurrected, nor does he have to have been the son of any god, nor supernatural in any way, nor does he even have to have ever actually existed as a mere mortal in human history for me to see a beauty within the horror and injustice of the Passion story that will move me deeply for as long as I live. The story doesn't have to be magical to still be immeasurably meaningful to me.
The ChristoCapitalist gospel of the GOP could not be farther from the real gospel of Christ, a gospel of ultimate sacrifice for others. I think it wise and just for us to politely challenge right wing believers to think about whose side they're really on. That of their supposed Lord and Savior? Or the ruling classes that just wanted him out of the way.
If evangelicals take the side of ChristoCapitalism, that is not the side of the God of the Jesus Gospel. Vote for the GOP and by your own Lord and Savior's teaching you are going to hell. Sheep and the Goats folks, simple as that. Vote for the GOP and answer for it on judgement day.
If Dems are worse? What are you to do? Stay home. Relax. Pray yer head off for "thy will to be done" even tho what you really mean is, "Do it my way, Lord". Have a beer, eat a steak, fuck yer wife. I do not give a hang. Just don't go out in November and vote for a party that is so in conflict with the teachings and examples of the Jesus you say you love.
If you buy into all the magic, if you're a true believer, you need to read your gospels again and see what Jesus really would do. What he really did. He sacrificed it all. He died. The least you could do is not vote for the guys who least represent everything Jesus actually stood for.
5:28 PM PT: Update
At Empty Vessel's suggestion, I'm adding clariication lest anyone think I forgot what the audience is here on DKos. So I'm pasting in part of a comment from the comments section.
Was not meaning to speak for any atheist but me.
And I'm fully aware that DKos is not a fundie audience.
What I mean to say is that progressive believers, and athiests alike might look for opportunities to make fundies think a lot more critically about their political choices in light of the teachings of the guy they claim to follow. If we can make them disengage from the political proccess and not vote for any sinner, R or D, then that's a win for the good guys.
I'm not talking about the Dominionists and the like. Lost cause. Don't need them anyway. But there are enough gettables out there that we should consider depressing their vote to the best of our ability to offset the uncertain effects of GOP legislated suppression of the Dem vote.
Not that this would be neccessary on the presidential level, but most certainly there will be a lot of close races down ticket. The more Rs that stay home the
5:30 PM PT: better. Ooops?