The Christian States Of America, Part II

Foreign policy, health care, the environment, crime...are these the issues that are in the news in connection with the campaign for the next U.S. president? No, whether or not the devil is the brother of Jesus...that's what's in the news.

Just imagine what the Europeans must be thinking about the United States. We criticize the Arab states over their fundamentalist Muslim believers. Yet, here at home we have fundamentalist Christians running for president who openly declare that their religion is what guides them and will guide them as president.

No wonder the Arabs fear another crusade!

PHOTO: Philadelphia's holiday tree located at City Hall Plaza

Jim

UGH! The Republicans, Again

I watched the Rockefeller Center tree lighting festivities on TV last evening, which was not all that entertaining. Some of the guest artists do not appeal to me. Some didn't even sing holiday songs. However, I enjoyed it when they finally actually lit the tree at the end of the program.

After the tree lighting show, I flipped the channels and came across the CNN/YouTube Republican debate, which I watched for as long a I could stand it, around ten minutes. The blogosphere seems to think that religious nut case Huckabee actually won the debate. Why should that surprise anybody? Bush and Rove have firmly wedded the Republican Party to the religious far right. The next American president will be a Christian fundamentalist, or under the sway of the religious far right, if he is a Republican.

PHOTO: The Water Works restaurant on the banks of he Schuylkill River, housed in an historic water works building.

Jim