Evangelical Incite

Yesterday, Barack Obama and John McCain squared off in Orange County, CA. The battle took place in a church; an “Evangelical” church in ultra conservative “Orange County, CA.” It was more like a job interview with Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church. Obama interviewed pretty well, but it was clear to me that McCain got the job just by judging the congregation’s reaction to every thing that he said.

That raises these questions in my mind:

Why do 67% of all White Evangelicals want McCain to win while only 23% want Obama? Why are “Christian” churches in America segregated along racial lines while the people who attend them swear they are all going to heaven to be together with Christ?

I listened to the Obama-McCain forum on the radio. Rick Warren asked softball questions for the most part. He touched on the issues that concerned White Evangelicals like abortion, moral failures and Supreme Court Justices. He even gave both candidates the opportunity to tell the world how much of a Christian they were. But it sure seemed as if the pitches McCain got were slower and right down the middle of the plate. For instance, McCain had the crowd believing that he and one of his North Viet Nam jailors together expressed their love for Christ before the jailor took him back to the “Hanoi Hilton.”

That was hard for me to swallow… I was once a prison guard.

What was missing from the forum was any discussion on the war in Iraq, and the number of innocent civilian women and children that are now dead or permanently injured because of it. There was no mention of the fact that McCain supported Bush’s great lie which plunged the nation into a conflict that brought great moral consequences to America’s standing in the world, and has given a big assist to Russia as they now invade Georgia. Obama did mention that the American government cannot keep its promise to educate its own while spending billions of dollars each day in a “war that never should have been in the first place,” to polite applause.

But no-matter what McCain or Obama say, race will be the driving force in this election… White “Evangelicals” will vote for McCain simply because he is more comfortable for them since he looks talks and feels like the White Brethren who attend church every Saturday and Sunday. He is White like the images of Jesus Evangelicals and others have grown to believe and accept as the true image of Christ... McCain will not betray their trust when his policies cost them nothing by way of more taxes or financial sacrifice, and he will keep them singing songs and hymns that have convinced at least 67% of White Evangelicals, and many other Christians that they are favored by God above all others simply because they have misconstrued the teachings of Christ for their own benefits…

You know: “McCain said it, I believe it, and that settles it for me!”

GM