Who are our ambassadors?

I saw Jerry Falwell on CSPAN this morning (in other news, I watch CSPAN.) How is it that Falwell, Jackson, Sharpton, and Robertson have become the voice of Christianity in America? I am so sick of living in the shadow of these "Reverands." They are ambasadors of Christianity. To give you a little taste of what I am talking about, I have posted the first part of an OpEd piece from the NYTimes. I think that we need to do some serious thinking about what our actions, both political and otherwise, say about the One whom we serve.

Slapping the Other Cheek

By MAUREEN DOWD

ou'd think the one good thing about merging church and state would be that politics would be suffused with glistening Christian sentiments like "love thy neighbor," "turn the other cheek," "good will toward men," "blessed be the peacemakers" and "judge not lest you be judged."

Yet somehow I'm not getting a peace, charity, tolerance and forgiveness vibe from the conservatives and evangelicals who claim to have put their prodigal son back in office.

I'm getting more the feel of a vengeful mob - revved up by rectitude - running around with torches and hatchets after heathens and pagans and infidels.

One fiery Southern senator actually accused a nice Catholic columnist of having horns coming up out of her head!

Bob Jones III, president of the fundamentalist college of the same name, has written a letter to the president telling him that "Christ has allowed you to be his servant" so he could "leave an imprint for righteousness," by appointing conservative judges and approving legislation "defined by biblical norm."

"In your re-election, God has graciously granted America - though she doesn't deserve it - a reprieve from the agenda of paganism," Mr. Jones wrote. "Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ." Way harsh.
Read the rest. . .