It’s not that I don’t talk about politics. I frequently do as a matter of course. The thing is, I don’t post about it, usually. The politics I spend my time with involve local affairs – mayor, local representative to Congress, state senator, M.U.D. board, etc. These thing affect me most and are pretty much worthy of my attention. National politics, on the other hand, affect society, but not me as much. My sporadic attempts to talk about national politics betray my ignorance.

What is different this time is that a book is saying something that I have believed in part for a long time. I believe the Religious Right has come to believe that real Christians support the Republican party. I’ve had experience with the implied threat to be like other real Christians. The only difference was party affiliation. The Religious Right wants us all to be Republicans of the most conservative sort. The ICoC wanted us to all be disciples(htdm) of the most radical sort.

No thanks, I’ve starred in that movie with editorial control over the script.

The book, Thy Kingdom Come, is written by one of the editors of Christianity Today. He talks about the origins of both the Religious Right and of Evangelical Christianity. I look forward to reading it at some point.