May 21, 2008
Talk
Maybe it’s getting to be an inconvenience our calling ourselves a Christian nation.
We can trust in God, and many, maybe even most, would think this is an altogether good thing to do. But even that doesn’t necessarily make us or even God Christian. There’s a lot of evidence to question any claim that it does. Furthermore, Jesus can be our president’s favorite “philosopher,” to use his term, but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that maybe he’s not read that memo either.
Perhaps the real clincher is the thing about Jesus saying we should love our enemies. Heaven knows it’s hard enough to get any consensus about what it means for just one person to love another or whether what sex they have to be to do so, let alone a whole nation. Some say that for a nation or a church or any other institution to love is at least for them to treat others fairly and justly and, above all, peacefully. That’s at least what our Constitution and other laws more or less suggest.
So if we cannot love our enemies, we can at least, again, if we claim to be a Christian nation, treat them fairly and, like it says, with peace and justice for all. Maybe our presidential aspirants who seem to be in such a twit about even talking to our enemies could reflect about all this. Not even Jesus said we have to like the scoundrels, but at least to be civil, for heaven’s sake. And it seems altogether puzzling if that doesn’t at least mean to say, Hello, how you doin’? Maybe they’ll say, Jes’ fine. And it’s no wonder where things could go from there.
Of course, it might be best first to ask whether they even want to talk to us at all. Maybe they don’t.
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