One of the most disturbing TV programs I've seen lately was Bill Moyers' Journal last night on MPB. The video and the transcript are on the website. Most of the hour was spent discussing Christians United For Israel, or CUFI, and their calls for the bombing of Iran.
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These fanatics scare me as much or more than the Islamic Jihadists, mainly because some of them live in my neighborhood. These people who want to base our nation's foreign policy on Armageddon and the Antichrist (a man who promotes peace, they believe) have got way too much influence on Bush and other government representatives, IMO.
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Headed by a televangelist from Texas, the CUFI's seem duplicitous in their objectives - support Israel long enough to get Armageddon started, then leave the Jews to perish in eternal damnation while Jesus raptures this segment of so-called Christians to heaven.
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MY, MY, my! And they will know we are Christians by our love?
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Not all Texans are tilted too far to the right. This gem was in today's paper:
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DALLAS — A former Southern Baptist missionary who got
her start as a church secretary is likely to become the first woman president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. If Joy Fenner wins the election as expected at the end of this month, it will widen the gap between the conservative Southern Baptist Convention and the moderate Baptist General Convention of Texas, which has been distancing itself from the national denomination for years.
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The group that remained loyal to the SBC is known as the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, which formed in 1998 after it became clear that moderate and progressive Baptists in the state were wandering off the path prescribed by Paul Pressler and Paige Patterson. Dr. Patterson now heads the Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, which just started a homemaking program for pastors' wives to reinforce what the school president calls biblical family and gender roles.
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This graduate school for ministers recently sent packing its only female professor who was teaching male students in the school's department of theology. The seminary's board chairman said hiring a woman to teach men theology had been a "momentary" lapse.
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MY, My, my! By our love, indeed!