God in Politics, Part 1

Link: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan.

The great spiritual gift of Obama is that he has mastered this – not by suppressing it or denying it. But by confronting it, looking at it, expressing it, and channeling it to better ends. That some on the far right would now use this process of honesty as a way to describe Obama as a racist is a sign of their cramped hearts, frightened souls and utter inability to empathize. One day, they will feel ashamed. Right now, they simply have to be overcome.

First of all, I wholeheartedly disagree with the idea that God supports some nominees over others, as this blog entry would imply. I don’t subscribe to either political party so by no means am I just pissed that this post makes it out that God would vote Democrat or something.

The fact that this person says “That some on the far right would now use this process of honesty as a way to describe Obama as a racist is a sign of their cramped hearts, frightened souls and utter inability to empathize.” is suggestive that the exact same things don’t happen on the other side of the party line. If you’re going to participate in party politics, you should probably be accepting of the fact that slander happens everywhere.

By this author’s logic, the only people that aren’t going to be ashamed are those of us who don’t subscribe to a political party and those who subscribe to a party but aren’t so ignorant that they won’t even consider what the other side is saying.

Finally, I’d just like to point out that if someone is going to use God in politics, they should probably shape their political views around God–not try and use God to justify their political views.

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Also, Part 2 is over at my personal blog. I figure I’ll give it a couple of days before I officially bring it over here for discussion so this one can be discussed a little first. It’s simply titled “God in Politics” for those of you who prefer to navigate to it manually rather than clicking the link I provided.