Mundanely Profound

Tingles (of hope) when I read it

As a rather religious (albeit non-Christian) person, and a slight social conservative (still developing my views on personal things the government should have nothing to do with), I was fascinated and hopeful reading this Prospect online article about the referendum on a state tax increase referendum in Alabama. And it is the devout Christians that are justifying tax increases throught Scripture.

The article is filled with hope that a good many devout Christians could vote and support socially progressive ideas that benefit the poor in the long-term future. If there's one thing about conservatives and Republicans that anger me (and God [used as an expression] there are a lot these days) it's use of the Judeo-Christian God to justify whatever socially damaging, poverty-inducing, poor throwing-in-the-guttering, policy that does nothing but make a few greedy people richer. How much people at the Heritage Foundation go to church every week, and if folks like Tom Delay are religiously active what sort of cognitive dissonance do they have to maintain in their heads to follow Jesus' teachings then go around in their 'secular' lives making it extremely difficult for the less fortunate to have faith in anything?!?

We'll see what happens.