Being Honest About Christian Triumphalism

[Zephie]

Frank honesty from career politicians is a rare and refreshing thing. So let us breathe in the words of Robert Bentley, the newly elected Republican governor of Alabama.

”But if you have been adopted in God’s family like I have, and like you have if you’re a Christian and if you’re saved, and the Holy Spirit lives within you just like the Holy Spirit lives within me, then you know what that makes? It makes you and me brothers. And it makes you and me brother and sister. <...> Now I will have to say that, if we don’t have the same daddy, we’re not brothers and sisters. So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister, and I want to be your brother.“

Did I mention he said this at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day address? Naturally Bentley’s press secretary went into damage-control mode at once, saying “he is the governor of all the people, Christians, non-Christians alike,” and his office sent out a statement reiterating that he will be governor to “all Alabamians,” but the curtain had been drawn back to reveal what we already knew about politicians like Bentley. That conservative Christian politicians tend to prefer and favor Christians, despite the secular ideal that mandates equal treatment under the law. So perhaps it is for the best that Hindus, Jews, atheists, Buddhists, Muslims, and Pagans living in Alabama are put on notice now.

http://wildhunt.org/blog/2011/01/being-honest-about-christian-triumphalism.html

[DCKit]

1. This guy's going to be a regular on Faux, fer sure. nt