There was an op/ed column in the New York Times this past Sunday by Nicholas Kristof that while not warranting attention grabs some nonetheless. Kristof, an unabashed Obama fanboy, whines about how there are mad bad and dangerous to know scalawags out there spreading scurrilous falsehoods about Obama, specifically that he’s a Muslim. This of course explains those twenty years or so he spent listening to Jeremiah Wright’s blather. Come on, people. If you’re going to put up a front about your faith, you’re going to pick the most mainstream church there is to attend. Having a moron for a pastor does not mean one is not a Christian. A liberal theological bent does not mean one is not a Christian. Being born Muslim and retaining an affection for some of its outward trappings does not mean one is not a Christian any more than someone who has rejected Christ yet retains an affection for various hymns and Psalms is a Christian. Obama is a Christian. Okay? Obama is a Christian. So is Sarah Palin. Both left and right need to get over themselves and accept it. Period.
That said, the following bit from the op/ed is a jawdropper:
What is happening, I think, is this: religious prejudice is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice. In public at least, it’s not acceptable to express reservations about a candidate’s skin color, so discomfort about race is sublimated into concerns about whether Mr. Obama is sufficiently Christian.
Really.
I mean, really.
Religious prejudice? You mean like Charlie Gibson deliberately omitting a crucial part of a prayer once offered by Sarah Palin to make it sound like she believes the war in Iraq is a sacred cause when in fact her prayer was that America’s leaders were acting in accordance with God’s will? You remember the Times correcting that, don’t you? Oh wait that’s right. Other than stick a quote from Powerline calling out Gibson’s duplicity in a column quoting several blogger’s take on the interview, nada. Musn’t do anything to disrupt the portrait of believers as whacked-out freaks.
Racial prejudice? You mean like how Kristof joins the chorus that varies from insinuating to flat out proclaiming anyone who’s white and prefers McCain over Obama is obviously a racist? Also a moron, because if they weren’t they’d be Obama fanboys and girls? That racial prejudice? No, of course not. Only conservative white Christians are capable of bigotry. Everyone else is tolerance personified. Slam Christians and Christ Himself? You’re a deep thinker. Defend Christians and believe in Jesus? You’re just bitter, clinging to your guns and religion. Yeahrightsure.
But hey. I don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun. All y’all keep on keepin’ on. We who believe are just dumb enough to also keep on…
… keep on loving you whether you like it or not. And telling you the truth. We know you don’t like that.
But don’t be bitter about it.
