Praying Nutbars...

I hate to drift back to the old stand by of religion but I just can't help myself. My father and mother are good folks and they attend a local Church in SC. The pastor of the church insist upon bringing politics into the pulpit and mixing it into a kool aid that the congregation must drink. My father has warned the guy on several occasions that contrary to popular belief, not everyone at that Church is a Republican and that he should tone down the conservative rhetoric. The pastor refuses to stop using the bully pulpit for political purposes. The latest example was when he said that God really moved in the election for the senate seat in Massachusetts didn't he? First of all, what business is it of a Southerner to take solace in a political election in the North? These are the same folks that hate "Yankees". Also, if that result means that God moved in that senate race, then God must have really moved last November when we elected Barack Obama. My point is, that God doesn't support any political party. There is no moral high ground in politics either. The sad reality is that we have voters that blindly believe whatever they are told and they get their marching orders from people who often don't give a darn about them. We have folks voting against their best interest simply because either a pastor or conservative talk radio tells them that Democrats kill babies or that Democrats are weak on terror. How on earth can a Republican President reside over the worse domestic terror attack and then be perceived as tough on terror and able to "keep us safe"? I don't care if a pastor wants to be a Republican but I do not want to hear it from the pulpit or when I'm eating lunch with him. I am fair minded though, I also do not want to know if he is a Democrat. Any church, pastor or religious group that is active in politics should have their tax exempt status removed and then we will see how many faithful givers that they keep. It's a sure sign that these groups and religious leaders have no faith in the message if they spend all of their efforts on politics and not on the faith and scriptures that they cling to in word only and not in deed.