BUT, in each case there are some crazy assholes that scare the crap out of me. they are the ones who think they speak for the whole … and all too often it seems like they do.

To borrow a christian phrase … Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. OR better yet … try to get along, but make sure you are armed like an Israel!

In a recent article I penned for The Carleton Progressive, I lauded Kansas Senator and staunch evangelical Sam Brownback for his aggressive stance on Darfur and North Korean human rights, and urged Democrats, on these issues at least, to “Be Like Sam…

That’s not really the case, at least not in Darfur, where most of the Sudanese killed have been Muslim. The thing is, they’ve been dark-skinned Muslims, and the janjaweed are light-skinned Muslims.

Of course, the previous years of genocide in Sudan were Muslims killing Christians.

Indeed, it also goes to show that the Christian right, for all the vilification that they’ve had to endure from the hard-secularist Left in America and Europe, are like cuddly kittens when stacked up against the “religious right” from a certain other religion, which, for that very reason, the hard-secularists rarely criticize publicly (with one recent exception).

The phrase was “has been cited” which it has. I wasn’t implying I had any proof that the evangelicals were behind Bush’s statements–just that some believe that to be the case.

The evangelicals are hardly the only ones calling for more action in Darfur, but they have a powerful voice and I am more than happy to welcome them to the cause.

Hold on a sec. An article by the Christian Science Monitor is hardly proof that evangelicals behind action to stop the evildoing in Sudan, especially from the Bush administration. A letter from Kofi Annan to John Bolton, an expanding UN peacekeeping mission and a globally-growing awareness of the problem might also be behind it, just a smidgen.

While Christian values are certainly not unlike the values of ANY moral person, on the left or right, don’t be so quick to give them credit for any good deeds being done. It doesn’t take a Christian, in the right or the left, to know what is the right thing to do in Sudan.

This coming from a non-Church going, non-religious conservative.