Christians speak out against Bush agenda

I really like to see this stuff.

One-third of the professors at an evangelical Christian college in Grand Rapids, Mich., are taking out a large ad in a local newspaper Saturday to protest President Bush's commencement speech.

Not that I'm real religious or anything, but I do find it really disturbing when the Dominionists try to force their views on the rest of us. They want to make everyone buy into their own wacko brand of Christianity. I was raised Lutheran, and what I remember is that Jesus taught people to help other people, be nice to everyone, even the lepers, love your neighbor and all that good stuff.

"As Christians, we are called to be peacemakers and to initiate war only as a last resort," the ad will say. "We believe your administration has launched an unjust and unjustified war in Iraq."

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"No single political position should be identified with God's will," says the ad, which also chastises the president for "actions that favor the wealthy of our society and burden the poor."

Christians are to be characterized by love and gentleness, it adds, but "we believe that your administration has fostered intolerance and divisiveness and has often failed to listen to those with whom it disagrees."

Moreover, says the letter, set to run in the Grand Rapids Press, the Bush administration's environmental policies "have harmed creation," and it asks the president "to re-examine your policies in light of our God-given duty to pursue justice with mercy."

That George Bush thinks everything he does is divinely inspired and Jesus wants him to invade other countries, lower taxes for the rich and cut social programs for the poor just makes me want to puke. So I'm thrilled that some of these more mainstream Christians are standing up to his pack 'o lies. That needs to happen more and more often, lest mainstream Christians start wondering if they will still make it past St. Peter's Gates if they don't hate gay people and support Bush's wars.

via All Spin Zone