God is not on the Ballot

It has been a while since my last post, and I am working on a piece.

In the interim a great post by Jim Wallis (author of God's Politics) on his blog, that I would like to share with you.

http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=3166

As a preivew Jim writes:

"In 2008, the kingdom of God is not on the ballot in any of the 50 states as far as I can see...

With more than 2,000 verses in the Bible about how we treat the poor and oppressed, I will examine the record, plans, policies, and promises made by the candidates on what they will do to overcome the scandal of extreme global poverty and the shame of such unnecessary domestic poverty in the richest nation in the world"

The rest is in a similar tone... if only more US preachers were like Jim and less like those that preach a message of intolerance and literal interpretation of a text that was never meant to be read literally... (and for most of its history was never read literally).