One result of the political presumptuousness of Fallwell, Dobson, Pat Robertson, and others has been to make atheism fashionable in the United States. Their un-Christian legalism has made it easy for shallow religious provocateurs to fashion a false "straw man" Christianity which, with no intellectual effort and scant evidence, they can knock down to "prove" that God doesn't exist and that the claims of Christ are wrong. An uninquisitive media haplessly abets the misimpressions of Christian faith created by Dobson et al by treating their presumptions as true.
But the fact is that the forty to fifty people who tentatively voted for a third party presidential candidacy in Salt Lake City don't represent most Christians. ...A drubbing might be a wake-up call to those involved in the Religious Right not to give up on politics as an individual pursuit, but to renounce the hubris of believing that they and God see eye-to-eye on political issues, to adopt more humility about their politics.
Mark is actually hoping Dobsen et al go through with their threats and then get their brains beat in after they end up electing Hillary Clinton. I'm not quite willing to go that far since I think the damage that a Clinton presidency could do is not worth the enjoyment of seeing some of these pretentious pastors put in their place, but I'm looking at things from more of a political perspective than Mark's spiritual one.
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