Post Election Thought
It may seem odd for an ordained minister to agree with a New York Times OP/ED titled, “The God Glut,” but I find the observations and argument persuasive. In many ways we have too much “God” in government and based on conversations with a military chaplain I know, evangelical Christianity, actively “recruits” and evangelizes against regulations and its allowed. Issues! Here are a couple paragraphs and a link.
The God Glut
by Frank Bruni | The New York Times | Dec 10, 2012Bob Kerrey’s political career spanned four years as the governor of Nebraska and another 12 as a United States senator from that state, during which he made a serious bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. In all that time, to the best of his memory, he never uttered what has become a routine postscript to political remarks: “God bless America.” That was deliberate. “It seems a little presumptuous, when you’ve got the land mass and the talent that we do, to ask for more,” he told me recently.
We have God in our public schools, a few of which cling to creationism, and we have major presidential candidates — Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum — who use God in general and Christianity in particular as cornerstones of their campaigns. God’s initial absence from the Democratic Party platform last summer stirred more outrage among Americans than the slaughter in Syria will ever provoke. Click here to read more.