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Entry: Don't Look Left Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/dont_look_left#532 Post contents: Franz, You say: "But with every occasion on which the Christian Right squanders its moral capital, every unjust war it supports, every foolish statement designed to provoke a war between Israel and her neighbors, every ham-handed attempt to keep Christians from taking the environment (and the survival of God’s Creation) seriously, that bulwark erodes just a little. Intelligent young people look at the movement which can sanction such irresponsibility, which touts the likes of Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, and George W. Bush, and turn away in disgust. Like the Catholics of Spain who associate the Church with Franco’s secret police, they shudder and look for something else—a worldview which is not so manifestly juvenile and irrational" Just an outstanding analysis, Franz. But I'm afraid that the bulwark erodes not just a little with these events but rather critically. We're now past the point that any reform will have much meaning in my view. The whole effort need to be shown the door and reinterpreted. The extant emphasis on pragmatism has proven itself utterly bancrupt. Better out of power altogether than conjoined to the kind of leadership that these folks represent. Just yesterday Cardinal Bertone offered Benedict XVI's criticism of an erroneous "political Christianity" which goes to a view of the role of faith that is at once more activist than simply critical. Once requires little imagination to see who's being identified here. John Lowell Sent at: 2008 08 21