I’ve written before about the empty, shallow religion practiced by fundamentalists, who name God merely to defend their backwards lifestyle, rather than devoting themselves to anything of real religious substance. Focus on the Family graciously continues to play into my description of them: an employee there was only “partly joking” when he urged believers to pray for rain during the Democratic National Convention, when Obama will be giving his speech outside (via “Pharyngula”).
God is not a political force. If your religion only extends to what God can do for you and your ideological brethren, you’re not a believer or a Christian – you’re a political pragmatist who thinks that you fully understand God (impossible) and can bend Him to your will (arrogant).
It reminds me of Governor Purdue praying for rain to ease Georgia’s drought… when the forecast already called for rain the next day. A superfluous political stunt that drags the name of God through the mud parched dirt.
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