First and foremost, let me make it perfectly clear that I’m a hard-core atheist. Despite that, I find a great deal of truth in the (selected) teachings of Jesus.
Faith in Christ and in the Christian God were important parts of my life for over 10 years. During that time I spent a great deal of time and effort to read the Bible and learn it’s lessons both on my own and through group study.
The bottom line is that I have more actual Biblical knowledge than most “Christians”.
This becomes very apparent when I observe the behavior of “Christian” political figures.
It would be easy for me to use my own Biblical knowledge to point out just how wrong headed, hypocritical, and outright wrong (in a scriptural context) most of the prevailing “Religious Right’s” views are. But the words would be tainted by my own beliefs.
How fortunate that there are actual believers (and quite a few of them) who see the truth as plainly as I do.
Here’s one. They see the sham that is today’s Christian Politics.
The Politics of Jesus by Harold Rhodes.
