Hypocrits in Action...East Meets West

I wrote about Katherine Harris in yesterday's blog. She is running for the Senate this year. I borrowed a quote from her, from an interview given to a religious periodical. In that same interview, she uttered a phrase that seemed rather odd to me: Salt and Light. I will quote from this interview once again:

"The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not just as a teacher or as a pastor or a banker or a lawyer, but in government and we have to have elected officials in government and we have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers."

Ms Harris was also a speaker at the Reclaiming America for Christ conference held in her home state of Florida. The phrase, "Salt and Light" appears on the homepage of this particular Christian assault group. It seems to be a rallying cry of sorts. I believe that it identifies the participants in this conference, indeed the whole political Christian Army, as being the "Salt of the Earth and the Light of the World".The conference was a training exercise in how to take over the government of America, in God's name of course, and put right the damage done by all previous secular governments.

I may be mistaken, but isn't that the same rational that propelled these chaps to "Reclaim Afghanistan for Allah"?




It seems to me that, while fighting tooth and nail to prevent the rise of theocracy in the Middle East, these Christian activists are fighting to install that very form of government here in the West.

There is a quote that I would like to offer at this point, taken from the book of Matthew. The passage deals specifically with the concept of Hypocrisy .

"Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?"

The Reclaiming America for Christ movement implies, by their very name, that the founding fathers envisioned a melding of Christianity and Politics, which has somehow been usurped by secular (civil) powers. I would argue with that and I offer one last quote in support of that argument:

"But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceived, and the People of being deceived by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance."

Benjamin Franklin...
quoted in The New England Currant (July 23, 1722).