Quagmire Accomplished.

That’s a sign I saw yesterday when I went down to Centennial Park to be present at just one of many vigil/march/protests held to observe 2 years of U.S. empire in Iraq.

As I hear the Religious Right yelp about “Culture of Life” and then set it next to this HUGE LIE that our country’s leaders are peretuating, I lend absolutely no ceredibility to anybody who claims to view life as sacred and does not abhor what is being done in the name of “freedom and democracy”. The blindness and the self-deception that it takes to belive this is absolutely scary, and makes me very afraid for the relevance of the Church in the United States.

My attendance at this rally I mention was itself somewhat unsatisfying, since it seemed to be more “60’s hippes culture” than faith-based. Although I can find much more “spiritual” identification with these folks despite that, since they see things with some semblance of compassion, and an ability to see through the “patriot-speak” and read “other thinhgs” and see the myriad of reasons to put no credibility in this administration; for these reasons, I sense a definite basic philosophical identification with these folks, and consider them “closer to the Kingdom of God” than most of the Church today, who remain silent or even “approving” of the Bush administration. Because you know what? To be slient or approving is to be APART from the Kingdom of which Christ spoke and continues to call us to recognize and be participants.