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how could the point(s) be valid if mojo has never--not once--acknowledged that there is a basic problem with the term "christian" in this political context, the one in which we live. i am not sure how ignoring attempts to raise these problems--often in quite careful ways--earlier in the thread can be equated with validity.
if you look more specifically at the entire range of denominations lumped behind this category--which the evangelical churches like to claim for themselves, as if they monopolize the entire belief system--then the idea that christians in the united states are in any way persecuted turns into a meaningless assertion.
that mojo chooses to construe an argument about the doctrone of original intent as it crosses with the interests of the types of christian organizations that are quite a powerful block on the right these days as an example of how christianity is somehow persecuted here is strange. maybe the problem is that not everyone believes as he does, and the sense of being persecuted follows from the fact of different beliefs.
if it is not that, i dont understand what he is talking about.
maybe he would care to explain?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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