Tony Campolo said “What good does it do to say you believe the Bible if you don’t do what it says?” Never has this been more important for us to realize today; more important for the people in the Churches to wake up and realize: The Bible PLAINLY orders us to be concerned with “the least of these”. The Bush administration looks completely the other way, to those who hold the rest of the “commoners world” at arms length and says “Stay away from me”. Our democracy and our earth are scared trusts, and these are being forsaken with alarming speed and regression by these who would call upon the Churches for their blessing. Sadly, most (or many, way too many) of them are doing just that.
For Kerry, as for most Democrats, the more effective way to close the religion gap isn’t by pandering to churchgoers with quotes from the Bible; it’s by addressing issues–poverty, social justice, the environment–that many people of faith care about, while pointing out that Republicans do not, in fact, have a monopoly on values.