Religious Right. Right?

There are two things that really just hurt about this article. The first is the way in which Christian values have been manipulated to fit in with a political ideology. Conferences like this re-inforce the sentiment that the church is about rules, about being homophobic and xenophobic. When terms are used like “attack on our Christian heritage”, everyone knows that the implication from that is that it’s the Muslims who are the root of all the problems in this country. It’s hate-speech, wrapped up in self-righteous pomposity. These groups push Christianity as being a religion for respectable, white, middle/upper class families. “Family Values” are the cornerstone of what the religious right is about. Not “good news for the poor, sight to the blind, freedom for the captives” (link).

But the hardest part to take is the bitterness in this article. The exasperation. The church is failing. We’re more passionate about keeping our culture from the evils of sexual immorality than we are about caring for the broken. This article is an accurate reflection of what most of Australia’s population sees from christians in the news. Moral policemen. Respectable rich people wanting to clamp down on “unsavouries” in soceity.

Whitewashed tombs.