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Joan wrote:<BR>
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I believe firmly that the agenda of the Bush administration is deeply immoral. What's more, it is the very antithesis of what it most strenuously claims to be: Christian.<BR>
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I couldn't agree more.<BR>
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What amazes me, has always amazed me, since I was a teeny tiny person, is how this moral directive is so conveniently tossed aside by those who profess to be devout followers of the author:<BR>
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Matt 5:43-44 "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you" <BR>
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I know the Bible can be interpreted in numerous ways that make it very easy for anyone to find a passage to justify just about anything, but these words are very clear. I have always found them to justify a nearly pacifistic ethic on the part of Christians, who currently in America seem inclined to want to kill rather than show love for their enemies.<BR>
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Again I ask, as I did recently on V2020, would Christ have carried out the killing of 100,000 Iraqis in the name of Democracy, or the Lord?<BR>
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For those answering "yes," we could discuss this view knowing we are engaging in a dialog critical to the vote that just supported Bush, with the Evangelical vote being perhaps Bush's most vehement and largest single voting block.<BR>
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Ted Moffett<BR>
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