Martin Luther King Jr. and the politics of Christianity
Posted 43 weeks 2 days ago bySarah Vowell has a delightful op-ed in today's NYT, deftly looking at the political secular-Christian divide in light of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. It is especially resonant for a liberal from Kansas.
Whoever wins the presidential election this year will be a Christian. (Unless of course it’s that one guy who is a member of a Muslim sleeper cell. Just when you think the electoral process couldn’t get any more stupid....) So the rest of us might as well suck it up and see if we can pick the Christian who is, if incapable of loving his or her enemies, the one who seems least likely to drum up a bunch of extra, new enemies to hate.
Read the whole thing. It's smart and funny.
Thoughts
Sarah Vowell - insightful
Submitted on February 25th, 2008 by SayBladeI read the complete article by Sarah Vowell and she has found a depth to Christianity that I dare say many Christians will never understand. While US elections are peculiar and bizarre processes full of posturing, bickering, distraction and lies, the lives of people like Martin Luther King Jr. bring a universal light, hope and truth to people of all beliefs everywhere.