Jesus Has Left The Building

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

--1 Timothy 6:10,11

America’s future now depends on nothing more complicated than our ability to treat each other with the kind of compassion that Jesus preached, and to see the world with the quiet and humble optimism that we used to call Christianity.

These are times when democracy has a chance to prove itself to the world.


The economic crisis is the greatest opportunity in a generation for Republican leaders to prove that the U.S. is a "christian nation". Saving the world will only require a few years of what the GOP has long claimed to stand for: strength of patriotic sacrifice, rigor against fear and a largess of Christian charity. It is sad and surprising that the Republicans now stand with srange zealotry against Christian charity, public humility or economic moral sacrifice.



Childish Things in Their Hands

The Democrats march forward with those faithful goals in their hearts, their deeds and their wallets. They are wildly, wildly and even still wildly imperfect, but they are moving decidedly with the moral river of our better human destiny.

The Republicans are obstructing in the same path forward. They are suddenly crying like frightened children, unwilling to accept a dose of tough reality. In their hands are loud and boisterous things.

The Party of Dog

The Republican party's faith parted ways with their religion a few election cycle’s back. There is one overriding thing about their new hate-radio hosted grandstanding. It is a sick and twisted irony that the Republicans are so openly disavowing the patriotic legitimacy of anything that is even in the same dictionary as the word faith.

Neither party is particularly gifted in achieving their goals. But here’s the rub: When Republicans pass an accident on the road, they call on a cell phone for aid, without slowing, just like they call for a waiter. Democrats (and Party-Non-Declared) pull over to render assistance and they insert themselves in a strangers' tribulations.


On the Road with an American Dream worth failing for.

There has been a terrible accident in America and everyone knows this. The Democrats have pulled over, rolled up their sleeves and gotten out of the car to render assistance. The Republicans have driven by and they know it. Their snobbish abandonment of Christ’s path in these historically difficult hours is the last nail in a cross of their own manufacture.

The Democrats have been condemned by the right for being a lot less religious. Suddenly however they are a much more faithful party. They can see an American dream worth failing for.

The GOP is caught up in a “Spanish Inquisition” style of Christianity. The Democrats look, and act more like long haired guys in worn-out sandals. One party works for a future for all Americans, the other just complains bitterly and throws tantrums. The Republicans are dragging the same great cross of the ages through our streets. They are just making sure someone else is riding it, this time up the hill.

This time up the hill.

Manifest Destiny is going to roll over the powdered bones of the newly virulent Republican spit-wagon. These shockingly hateful others are not men of relevance to mankind’s common moral journey any more. They have become just another footnote sect of history’s fearful deniers who choose to stay behind. And stay behind.

They are not coming with us.

Which leads to your humble (ex) Cowboy’s question of the moment:

Did Jesus leave the Republican Party, or was he pushed?


Ride For The High Country