2008 Woodie Awards
Rich in our spirits: Christianity
Jerrell Allen
Issue date: 4/4/07 Section: Editorials & Viewpoints
It's another Sunday morning, and millions of Americans are beginning their day. A good portion of them like to call themselves Christian; it is, after all, very fashionable to belong to the religious group that founded their country. They pull on their expensive clothes with resolve and hop into their SUVs, setting their hearts away from sin and preparing themselves to hear the message of the true and divine God. And so, driving past a number of missions, orphanages, drastically under-staffed homeless shelters, over-crowded prisons-and the occasional halfway house-they arrive at their illustrious houses of God. For a few hours, they all sit in reverence and listen to a man tell them to be more like Jesus. Thank God we live in a Christian country.
Mikhail Gorbachev once said that the first socialist on the planet was Jesus Christ. He was a man who resolved to make things better for everyone (Jesus, that is). Kurt Vonnegut, in his semi-memoir A Man withou0t a Country argues that socialism and Christianity are essentially the same thing; ideologies that argue that everything should be equal and all men and women are, in essence, the same under God. Ridiculous! If Christ intended his people to support welfare for people who cannot take care of themselves or pensions for the elderly and disabled, he wouldn't put those concepts into the heads of those murderous liberals, right? The same liberals, I may add, that support the murdering of thousands of unborn fetuses. The same, of course, could never be said of our trustworthy, God-fearing conservatives. I've never heard of a Republican who supported state-sanctioned murder. (Note: The War in Iraq doesn't count, as Iraqis are mostly Muslims, not beautiful, Christian babies).
So we all know that there are a few holes in the entire "Christian Conservative" argument; that goes without saying. Further proof, perhaps, is the fact that while many of those same faith-based initiative volunteers often gasp in horror at the thought of the 10 commandments being excluded from a courthouse, I have yet to hear even one of them suggest any of the adages of Jesus Christ to be put up in government buildings. "Turn the other cheek" just wouldn't look right if we put it up on any of the walls of the Pentagon. "Blessed are the meek" isn't exactly something that would sit well in the Capitol building (especially with congressmen being paid $165,200 or more per year).
Mikhail Gorbachev once said that the first socialist on the planet was Jesus Christ. He was a man who resolved to make things better for everyone (Jesus, that is). Kurt Vonnegut, in his semi-memoir A Man withou0t a Country argues that socialism and Christianity are essentially the same thing; ideologies that argue that everything should be equal and all men and women are, in essence, the same under God. Ridiculous! If Christ intended his people to support welfare for people who cannot take care of themselves or pensions for the elderly and disabled, he wouldn't put those concepts into the heads of those murderous liberals, right? The same liberals, I may add, that support the murdering of thousands of unborn fetuses. The same, of course, could never be said of our trustworthy, God-fearing conservatives. I've never heard of a Republican who supported state-sanctioned murder. (Note: The War in Iraq doesn't count, as Iraqis are mostly Muslims, not beautiful, Christian babies).
So we all know that there are a few holes in the entire "Christian Conservative" argument; that goes without saying. Further proof, perhaps, is the fact that while many of those same faith-based initiative volunteers often gasp in horror at the thought of the 10 commandments being excluded from a courthouse, I have yet to hear even one of them suggest any of the adages of Jesus Christ to be put up in government buildings. "Turn the other cheek" just wouldn't look right if we put it up on any of the walls of the Pentagon. "Blessed are the meek" isn't exactly something that would sit well in the Capitol building (especially with congressmen being paid $165,200 or more per year).
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