Throw Them To The Lions!

The Brown County Democrats reprint an article which hurls invective at any Christian who does not toe the liberal line:  Who are the good Christians?

They are the decent Christians. They are the calm, morally progressive, compassionate, open-hearted Jesus-loving folk who don't really give a damn for archaic church dogma or pious noise or sanctimonious candlelight vigils, for repressing women or bashing gays or slamming Islam and, in fact, turned to Christianity precisely because they believe these things are abhorrent and wrong and, well, anti-Christian.

There is the oldest American bias, the one against Catholics:

They are the legions of recovering Catholics, people for whom the radiant and positive aspects of this most intense of faiths still hold powerful sway but who just can't abide by the ridiculous and outdated and often homophobic and sexist doctrines hurled forth like so much flaccid manna from the unhappy red-robed automatons of Vatican City.

The "good" Christian hates George Bush and Republicans:

They are the moderate Christians, the ones who do not support illegal wars or the killing of all doctors who perform abortions and who are all for social justice and who think Bush is a bit of an imbecile, and even if they find themselves for some unfortunate reason in support of the Republican cause overall they still think it's rather abhorrent that the man dares invoke God to support his lie-ridden wars and the smashing down of women's rights and gay rights and abuse of the environment et al.

The "good" and "decent" Christian certainly hates alot of people, for instance:

...they are not setting the cultural agenda like some sort of sanctimonious meth-addled monkey (hi, Sen. Santorum!) right now.

Not exactly "love thy enemy," is it?  Their enemies are "meth-addled” monkeys.

What to do with the non-leftist Christians? Why, make fun of them:

And, to my mind, these people deserve all the fiery verbiage and raw satire and intelligent ideological counterforce I can possibly lob their way.

I continue to say that I cannot believe that the invective and over-the-top boilerplate posted on the Brown County Democrats' website is indicative of the average Brown County Democrat.  The Christian the NVB ridicules with this article happens to describe most people in Brown County and South Dakota, and indeed Christians everywhere.  I argued last week that the Church is and must remain countercultural.  I was referencing the Catholic Church, but it pertains to the greater Church as well. What NVB wants to suggest is that any Christianity that does not parrot NVB's paranoid radical left-wing agenda is not authenticly Christian and is worthy of nothing but ridicule.  John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham, and no doubt your local pastor are nothing more than objects of hate and scorn to the official organ of the Brown County Democrats.