Dear George,
I was delighted to see the Supreme Court uphold the ban on partial-birth abortion. They have struck another blow on behalf of the Reformed Church of the Angry White Male in America. Here is a church up to its keister in irony, a church outraged over a bundle of cells being removed from a woman’s womb while remaining unmoved as children the world over are shrapnelled, starved and sold into slavery.
As in all things, father knows best.
The church’s ultimate goal is to tailor Christianity to fit the needs of the State. The ideology that calls us a Christian Nation bears little resemblance to the faith of Jesus. Jesus was an anarchist and a rabble-rouser. His crucifixion was his just reward. Out of his death and resurrection arose the plastic Jesus that has made us the world’s sole-surviving superpower, for now.
There are risks, though. It is fortunate that more Christians have read the Left Behind series than have read the bible. Even when read in church, the readings tend to deal with Jesus’ parables (which nobody understands) or his miracles (which nobody believes). Seldom to have they touched on his teaching (which everyone finds impractical. Love thine enemy? Get serious!).
The day the masses take Jesus’ teachings seriously is the day they impeach your ass.
Of course, there’s little chance of that happening. The sad truth about all religions is that they are founded by poets and administered by bureaucrats.
I have one word of caution. In an attempt to counter the image of Jesus as a peace-loving flower child, your theocrats like to point to the manly Jesus who trashed the temple. What they overlook is that the temple was Jerusalem’s Wall Street, and the people Jesus booted were the bankers and the bean counters. Let us hope nobody draws the wrong lesson from that one.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
4:48:37 AM 
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