You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I’m telling you why:

a. Santa Clause is coming to town
b. Jesus is coming
c. None of the above

I’ve seen church fights that would make a bar-room brawl look tame. I’ve often wondered how church people can be so mean to each other, yet out-give secularist to charity.

The answer, I suppose, is a warped sense of accountability. They won’t cuss, drink or smoke ? but they’ll destroy one another with bickering.

But considering the activism: I know many evangelicals and nearly all have a keen sense of waging a culture war that makes me doubt there will be any reluctance to temper their activism.

Will the mythology crumble? Sorry, Dave, I gotta disagree. Michael Shermer has published some interesting research on the human psyche. It seems the proclivity to religion, UFOs and conspiracy theories is deeply embedded.

An Evangelical Manifesto” and is touted by the AP as a statement by “evangelicals” that “faith is now too political.” That isn’t all. The AP is claiming that it isn’t just Christian leaders in general that are saying this but that it is “conservative Christian leaders” who are standing up and denouncing politics in religion. But a little investigation proves that “conservative leaders” is not a very good description of those who have signed onto this “manifesto.” In fact, many of the most well-known conservative Christian leaders in the country have decided not to sign onto the “manifesto” and many more weren’t even consulted or included in the creation of this highly political document that pretends it stands against politics.

Sadly, this “manifesto” that is claiming to want to take religion back from its political involvement is itself a political statement, one that was created by people that refused to include Christian leaders from the right side of the political spectrum. This so-called “manifesto” seems to be just another attempt by the political left to undermine the devotion of Christians to the political right.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/05/03/ap-conservative-christians-manifesto-has-few-conservatives-invol

The consensus would seem to be that this actually is a case of a person with a clinical problem. One can hope that deleting his comments is best for him.

Thanks KA