A post to the blog of the EkklesiaProject asks something I have asked folks over the past month or so:

“ I find it interesting, however, that not one of my brothers and sisters in the faith has asked the most popular Christian question of the day: What Would Jesus Do?“

I think I may have blogged somethign to this effect earlier.  Most simply look at me like I’ve asked a silly question,  and I don’t press it,  but I want to.  I want to say “What?” We’re not allowed to ask about that?  To most people,  Christian ethics go out the window ,  and there is a total acquiescence to the “powers that be”,  and this attitude is promoted by such groups as the Southern Baptist leadership,  as they encourage believers to “submit to the authority of the magistrate” and base this on a Romans passage (I think chapter 13).  Gone is any idea that Christians are sometimes called upon to “speak the truth to power”.  The right wing factions certainly do this with issues such as abortion.  I don’t agree with most left wingers on abortion either,  but it seems to me that here,  the right wingers fail to apply their “resistance” energies to war issues because its been drilled into them that this is not a part of the “Christian platform”.  As a Christian,  I say this is hogwash.  Worse than that,  it’s bullshit.

(to borrow from Tony Campolo,  the fact that I just said “bullshit” is likely to upset many conservatives much more than they’d ever be upset at how Christians capitulate to popular opinion when it comes to war issues.  And this ,  to me,  is deplorable and Pharasaic.  )