Michael Lockhart of Everett, Washington, writing to Letter to the Editors in the Seattle Times on April 5, responded to a previous letter of April 3 from Fred Hutchins.  

Hutchins had said, "Well, men do wear more jewelry, including many of the `real men' serving in Iraq."

Lockhart's response to this assertion was, "Funny how wars tend to go hand in hand with paranoid fears of `feminization.'  Radical Islamic Jihadists seem to share the same fear, unable to back down from disastrous war strategies because it might look weak."

Specifically Hutchins thought Britain's response to the kidnapping of troops by Iran's government was weak.  Michael Lockhart continued commenting on Fred Hutchins's critique:

"Who would Jesus bomb?" has become the battle cry for those wishing to expose the dense hypocrisy of the fanatic right's militant brand of Christianity. They hate. They kill. They disregard -- and all in the name of Jesus.

Sweet Jesus, they would have you believe, was some kind of monster -- a homicidal, pathological and delusional figure bent on the destruction of all those unlike him.

Why would they make him the fall guy for their incalculable evil? Is it because he was such an unabashed liberal?

During my staunch Christian upbringing, Jesus taught me many things. Strangely, none of those teachings directed me to kill in his name, or in the name of God. Nothing I read instructed me to bash gays, subordinate women, destroy nature, convert heathens, or start wars. Nothing!

But apparently I missed some sort of biblical memo... one received by some pretty creepy characters. And here's the proof:

Dennis Hastert is right. It should be called a Christmas Tree.

Because what says "Jesus" better than a cut down Douglas Fir with electric plastic lights all over it?

Liberals, with their elitist political correctness, have got this issue all wrong. Face it, libs -- from November 1st to December 25th, you're on Jesus Time. It doesn't matter if your Jewish or Muslim or aetheist. The sooner you stop fighting it, the better off you'll be.

So put away your copy of Mother Jones, turn off your Dixie Chicks and get with the program.

Jesus wants you to shop.

If Jesus came back as an evangelical talking head.

MORNING SANCTUARY    

by Ken Swann

http://www.opednews.com

Good Morning Believers.

This is Jesus Christ in the morning on Rock 3:16. The station that raises the truth from the dead and brings the evildoers to their knees. I can't say I have talent on loan from God - Rush would sue me. But I have talent taken while the big man was sleeping. Thank Dad for the day of rest.

I know a lot of you are saying, what the hell took you so long to come back? Let me put it to you in a way that even Democrats would understand. Things didn't exactly go very smoothly my last time through. I was like a death row inmate in Illinois, without the DNA testing.

In the beginning, God created man in his own image.  Sound familiar?  That idea has been circulating for at least four thousand years.

How about this one: in the beginning, man created God in his own image.  Not quite as old, but popular enough.  The exact formulation is essentially modern, but some Greeks and Romans were saying something very like it about their gods better than 2,000 years back.

So, option A or option B?  One or the other is almost certainly right, but it's unlikely that any of us will know the answers in our lifetimes (Warning: this statement void in case of rapture).  Does it matter which idea is right?  In a personal sense, there's little that could be more important.  In a political sense... maybe not as much as you think.

But even if you're B all the way, it would pay for you to have some understanding of the people in the A camp, who this God character is, and how he became such a pain in the keester.