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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (41318)	4/10/2005 3:31:35 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Churches are mostly a good thing. I should know, I come from a family of big midwestern church and lay leaders. But my family's devout christians never got mixed up in politics until recently when one of my "born again" cousin's church started becoming rightwing political. My cousin became a rightwing spammer and very intolerant of anyone else's beliefs, real hatred for any other creed including Mormons. Shortly after he witnessed 9-11 in NYC (falling bodies and no God to step in and stop it), he started cracking up and I hear he's now an alcoholic. All because he was operating on a non-realistic level to begin with. Our Minister in Houston is a great role model. Really smart, caring non-political, loving but realistic moderate. Does not want money from the government and doesn't try to shove his doctrines down anyone's throat or call anyone else evil-doers. In fact we're all evil-doers from time to time, so anyone who uses that word is a hypocrite, starting with Bush. That is where the rightwing really gets in trouble, when they try to define life as black and white, right or wrong. That's when THEY become wrong. Yet they don't seem to realize it.