Axe to Grind:
I have a friend who hooked me up with a link to a site that sells bumper stickers.
One of the bumper stickers reads...
"The real Jesus forgives your Jesus for being a conservative warmonger".
The site is politically biased. However my friend is not. He's one of those (non-churched is the name he's given) believers that finds himself in a lot of different places politically. Neither left... or right... And so consequently has a hard time in the existing religious world.
The website (and bumper sticker) came up because he was talking to me about a post that went around Facebook a few weeks ago... It was one of those posts demanding that if you agreed... you had to repost it... so people would know you were a great Christian... or patriot... Or whether you believed certain things about Aids... or politics.. or ice cream... or cheese.
This one was political. It read something like this:
Let's be clear on this: Obama did not kill Bin Laden.... An American Sailor.... did. Obama just happened to be the one in office when our soldiers finally found Bin Laden and took him out. This is not an Obama victory, but an American victory. Repost if you agree.
My friend talked to me about how most of the reposts he was getting were from his Christian friends. But he was frustrated because as he noted "the logic of the post" was all wrong.
"It's not an either/or... thing"... he said. It's not Obama... or "the sailor".... but everyone had a job to do... Sailors don't do things without commands... and leaders sometimes have to make tough decisions. And so... his conclusion was.... everyone had a role to play... right?...
Which made total sense to me.
But what he told me was that as he posted that as a comment... all the "Jesus Sharks" came out... Snapping at him about George Bush... and who deserved more credit... And all the other things wrong with Obama (in their view) and by the time he was done... he told me... I never said anything political at all.... I just said the truth. Then he added... "Christians don't really care much about the truth... do they?"...
And I've been thinking about the question ever since.
Do Christians really care anything about the truth?
