The online futures markets don’t seem to think GOP ‘08 is dead. If you truly believe that it is, why don’t you put your money where your mouth is?

Political affiliation shouldn’t be passionate love, anyway. All we can hope for us an administration that isn’t trying to sneak a program of Christian reconstruction and world domination past us.

There’s obviously a need for a word that distinguishes Christians, a term for a religious persuasion which covers a wide spectrum of denominations and people of all kinds of political beliefs, from the political movement that uses a very narrow, actually heretical, mostly fundamentalist Protestant-derived version of Christianity to win political power for its adherents.

Tristero at Hullaballoo has used the term for years. He’s done several good posts for Blog Against Theocracy, in which he makes the distinction above (first of four here).

For a variety of reasons, other terms that have been suggested and used are not adequate: ‘Evangelicals’ is a term with a specific doctrinal meaning; new leadership among the evangelical churches has, thankfully, recently reclaimed the term by broadening their areas of religious and social concern to include healong the environment and ending torture. ‘Fundamentalist’ also fails to cover the political dimension of the organizations involved. ‘Kristian’ captured the flavor nicely for me, but I can see that the offense it might give would outweigh its clarifying value.

‘Christianist’ also has the advantage of being analogous to ‘Islamist’, another term fairly widely understood as denoting the abuse of a religion for political purposes—involving doctrinal distortion, theocracy, and tactical extremism.

Just like the very bestest Republican Congressperson ever from West Virginia, our inspirational leader Shelley Moore Capito, Ms. Goodling loves America’s Top Lawyer. So should you!

“May God bless you richly as you continue your service to America.” ???

Alberto Gonzales doesn’t serve the American people. He serves George W. Bush. That’s the main problem with his administration. He hires only people who will serve him. Fuck the Constitution. Fuck the will of the people. George is supreme.