Reply #3: Nothing New

[Robert Murphy]

"This campaign - which is being hyped on Fox and conservative talk radio - is an odd one."

And a fairly OLD one; Evangelical boycotts are nothing new. Nor is their never-ending search for new things to become oh-so-righteously indignant about.

"There is also something perverse, when Christians are being jailed for discussing the Bible in Saudi Arabia and slaughtered in Sudan, about spending so much energy on stores that sell 'holiday trees.'"

Since when did Evangelicals start caring about people of a browner shade?

Gratifyingly, it does seem that Christians with more moderate (sane?) sensibilities are finally beginning to tire of the Pat Robertsons of the world speaking for them. (Pat Robertson has achieved the impossible: he makes Jerry Falwell look like a reasonable man.) While not a Christian myself, Christianity does have many admirable, attractive features. Now if only the likes of the 700 Club and the Ole Time (see: The Middle Ages) Gospel Hour would actually follow its central tenets.

Robert

P.S. Speaking of righteous indignation, I cannot help but be reminded of the outraged cries of tyrannical oppression made by many slave-owning Southerners before the Civil War. Think this analogy unfair? Go checkout which side the Southern Baptists supported with such fervor during the days of the Freedom Rides and the march on Selma.