Is There a Republican God? ...Revised

Is there a Republican God?

I had a religious epiphany on the road to Damascus today.  Actually it was a weird insight while driving home from work on Margaret Avenue this evening.  

I have been thinking about politics of late, mainly because of the insane results of the recent  American presidential election.  You would think that for a two billion dollar investment in campaigning, manipulating the mass media and the masses one would be able to come up with much better results, but sadly it is what it is.  

During the brief two year lead time to the election I listened to much of the rhetoric, cons, lies, promises and misdeeds that make up a political platform.  Some of this rhetoric and quick retort has to do with religious issues, or moral ones at least, such as the right to abortion and the woman’s right to have domain over her own body, capital punishment, war and aggression, immigration, terrorism, education, gun control, gay rights, and universal health care. However, the religious right takes any or all of these issues and more and associates these causes with not only God but country as well.  In America it is a package deal.  

Is God a patriot I began to wonder. Further I conjectured, if two Christian countries go to war, whose side is God on, given that each side prays to the same God for victory.  My thoughts began to race as I drove home and eventually they drifted toward the idea that  the craziness that has become part of the Republican mainline is Bible based and these same born again believers are often patriotic war mongers. People who believe in God, Country and Foxe News and grapple with evolution, global warming and other subtle facets of reality.  I mean the Maldives and Miami are under water and Republicans believe they can “walk on water” because God said there would never be another flood. Christians or just idiots?

For example, Gay rights have actually been subverted into religious rights for those who do not wish to serve Gays. If the Republicans are so God fearing and  their Christian beliefs are so bent and distorted, I can only conclude that in good conscious I  can no longer believe in God if Republicans do. Republicans give God a bad name.

Republicans are just killing religion for me with their hypocrisy, narrow mindedness and cruelty.  They have no love of humankind. Or, do I have this all wrong?  Is the manipulation of religion in God’s name all about power and control to achieve a political agenda? 

Religion is simply a guise.  

Let me rethink this tomorrow as I drive home.