Tequila Jack

Moderate Christians are less certain about when and how our beliefs can be translated into statutory form, not because of a lack of faith in God but because of a healthy acknowledgement of the limitations of human beings. Like conservative Christians, we attend church, read the Bible and say our prayers.
But for us, the only absolute standard of behavior is the commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. Repeatedly in the Gospels, we find that the Love Commandment takes precedence when it conflicts with laws. We struggle to follow that commandment as we face the realities of everyday living, and we do not agree that our responsibility to live as Christians can be codified by legislators.

I think JOHN C. DANFORTH makes a point I have felt for some time: Jerry Falwell and his "conservative Christian" ilk do not speak for me.

If anything, I do not think the point is made stridently enough. Nor at all completely: for instance, "In recent years, conservative Christians have presented themselves as representing the one authentic Christian perspective on politics" misses that this group of subsets (ie, sects) of religion has always claimed to be the only holders of true beliefs, and that what has recently changed is that the MainStreamMedia has gone from showing Oral Roberts and Jim Bakker as fringe nuts to portraying similar types as the mainstream of Christianity.

That latter is, to me at least, an indication of political indoctrination practiced by the MSM whether with forethought or just unexamined prejudice. Why is it that war-on-terror-takes-decades POTUS Bush is vilified as "a born-again Christian" while killer-rabbit dictator-adulator former POTUS Carter never has this label applied to him?