"Republican does not equal Christian"

Bunnie Diehl on “Justice Sunday” and the Christian Right:

So apparently something called “Justice Sunday” took place yesterday. At my church we called it the Third Sunday after Easter. But in Generic American Protestant churches, it was the high holy feast of Justice Sunday! Where Republican politics and Evangelical doctrine are intertwined.

I don’t care how evil the secular/irreligious left is, religious folks should always be worried when the government uses them for partisan political purposes.

The press releases for the event said it was to bring attention that Democrats are keeping “people of faith” out of the judiciary.

This is stupid. First of all, who are “people of faith”? What does that phrase mean? Everyone is a person of faith — the question is what or whom they put their faith in: Is it in the Triune God? Is it in material wealth? Is it in logic? Moral relativism?

People of faith is itself a morally-relativistic phrase that equates all people who practice a religion. It says, in essence, that it matters not what your faith is in — just that you practice something.

For Christians, the phrase means nothing without an explanation of what and whom people put their faith in. For the purpose of partisan politics, it’s also stupid. Democrats don’t oppose judges because they’re Christian. There are plenty of Christians they would support. They oppose Christians who oppose leftist politics. And there is a distinction! Republican does not equal Christian. Christian does not equal Republican.

Liberal Democrats hate people who think the Constitution should be interpreted according to its original intent — and not international legal understanding. They hate people who think abortion is wrong, or who think Roe V. Wade is a bad legal decision. But believing in orginal intent or pro-life causes is not something only Christians or people of faith do. And it’s offensive to see the Republican Party — which has done so many evil things and is filled with so many evil and unethical people — act like it is SO MUCH better than the Democrat Party that they have a moral high ground on which to stand. It turns out I’m a registered Republican. But I know there is a difference between Tom DeLay and Jesus Christ and I know which one is my Savior.

Yup.

(Well, except I wouldn’t say that liberal Democrats “hate” people who take such-and-such a position. Spirited disagreement ain’t the same thing as hate.)

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