Holy Fool

Could it finally be that the demon of racism has finally been purged from our public consciousness?  I guess I'll wait for my minority friends to tell me if it's true or not.  And does that mean that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson can finally stop assuming all white people are racist?

I heard Republicans saying that this shows they need to get back to their core principles.  My question is this, what if this elections shows that the majority of public rejected you precisely because of those core principles?  The Republican party needs to do more than put lipstick on a bulldog here, they need a new dog.  I for one left the republican party (registered as unaffiliated) due largely to the ineptitude, arrogance, and prideful disregard for facts shown by GWB and his neo-con administration that drove a war agenda down our throats.  I fundamentally disagree with republicans (and probably some democrats) on our violent approach to terrorism.  I have yet to see either political party put forward a comprehensive plan for dealing with terrorism, other than trying to kill or indefinitely incarcerate them all.  How do we re-humanize Muslims in our national and personal discourse?  I say let's drop the free and easy association of the word terrorist with everyone with a beard and fabric on his head.

Many evangelicals have spoken the truth, that a life affirming platform extends beyond abortion and encompasses issues such as war, death penalty, poverty, healthcare, international aid, etc.  This was the first time in history (since Roe V. Wade) that a Democratic presidential candidate spoke so clearly to the need of reducing abortions, especially as a method of convenience, and in return he was slandered by Christians in millions of unsubstantiated and theologically inept emails.  I have never been more saddened than in the gossip and slander slung around by the body of Christ at one of their own brothers.  Repent.

This election may very well have meant the death of the 'religious right'.  No longer do fundamentalist Christians have any clout with the public.  The culture wars are lost.  The question to my fellow Christians that were so long mired in this endeavor is not how you will keep up the fight, but rather how is it that we are authentically Christian in a world that is not under our thumb?