Then this:
"In the end, Bush may regain rock-solid footing among evangelicals courtesy of his political enemies. When politicians and pundits attack Bush, many evangelical supporters reflexively back the man they put into the White House. Pollster Green says, 'In their current mood, evangelicals think: I like Bush, until his enemies attack him, then I really like him.'
David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter, wrote recently in the National Review that the President 'has been politically protected by the faith of millions of .... religious conservatives that he is 'a good Christian man.' '"
This is where I part company. It is one thing to look to Bush for your political goals. Politics makes for strange bedfellows. We end up supporting people that we find annoying (or worse) because they can give us something politically.
But evangelicals think that Bush is a good Christian man. Evesdropping--wmd-oops--outing a CIA agent and promising to fire anyone responsible--Katrina and playing the guitar while New Orleans drowned--all of that seems to not matter. "Good Christian man?"
How low can that bar get?
4 comments:
Obviously not low enough. Linked here from Wasp Jerky.
cool. welcome.
Hey Streak, it's a lazy dlw.
I think this is just another sign of the relatively shallow habits of political deliberation among white USEvangelical Christians.
These habits spring in part from their theology that tends to deemphasize political stuff on the whole.
dlw
yeah, interesting point. I was going to disagree since they seem to emphasize politics of a conservative type, but I wonder if you aren't saying that that conservative political thought is not connected really to their theology.
On that, I think Greg (over at the Parish) has some great insight into the commercialization of the gospel that might add to this discussion.
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