The Pendragon's Hall

The Pendragon is fully disgusted with his fellow Christians, who in the words of the one they claim to represent, "strain out gnats and swallow camels." Singer/songwriter Derek Webb, displaying the new contemporary ability to exaggerate non-existent problems and ignore real ones, sings: "There are two lies I have heard...you shall not surely die and Jesus was a white, middle-class Republican and you have to be like Him." Liberals excell at setting up straw men--arguments nobody has ever made--and then demolishing them to make themselves feel smart. I have grown up among white, fairly middle-class Christians all my life and I have yet to hear anyone suggest Jesus was a white, middle-class Republican. What we do claim is that the Republican platform fits with our understanding of Jesus' teaching, much better than does the Democratic platform. What people like Webb do is muddy the waters by ignoring Christ's teaching on the sanctity of marriage and the value of human life and instead of actually trying to come to terms with this get all fluffy on "the poor", who, if they ever did improve their lot in life, would work people like Webb out of a job moaning about them. Jesus was not a white, middle class Republican, nobody disputes that, but then again neither is Satan. And the white, middle-class Republicans are just as welcome in the kingdom as the poor blacks starving in Sudan. Earth to pie-in-the-sky Christians: get a life.