Ahh, gotta love the irony - a leftist preacher invoking God to attack the right for, allegedly, invoking God.
Suma, this guy blatantly misrepresents the views of "the right" in an attempt to paint those who don't share his views on the issues as, somehow, Godless (or perhaps blasphemous?).
Jerry Falwell doesn't speak for the Republican Party or for the president, in spite of Wallis's implied assertions. Furthermore, mainstream republican ideas of social justice do not "favor the rich over the poor", but rather equality of opportunity over equality of outcome, and in no way disregard the welfare of the less fortunate, as he would have you believe. Lastly, that Bush's foreign policy "sees war as a first resort and not a last resort", however popular a belief among the left, is nothing more than an unsupported assertion made to demonize.
A "beautiful message"? Hardly. More like the ultimate "appeal to authority" argument, combined with a few inductive fallacies, appeals to popularity and a whole lot of prejudicial language.
If he wants to disagree with the president or the GOP on issues of social justice or foreign policy, that's fine, but he's not doing that. He's misrepresenting his opponents' positions in order to demonize "the right" and win support for his own - proclaiming, ironically, that God is on HIS side. |
