The Religious Left's Lies
By James Watt
Saturday, May 21, 2005; Page A19
The religious left's political operatives have mounted a shrill attack on a significant portion of the Christian community. Four out of five evangelical Christians supported President Bush in 2004 -- a third of all ballots cast for him, according to the Pew Research Center. Factor in Catholics and members of other conservative religious communities and it's clear that the religious right is the largest voting bloc in today's Republican Party.
The religious left took note. Political opportunists in its ranks sought a wedge issue to weaken the GOP's coalition of Jews, Catholics and evangelicals and shatter its electoral majority. They passed over obvious headliners and landed on a curious but cunning choice: the environment. Those leading the charge are effective advocates: LBJ alumnus Bill Moyers of PBS fame, members of the National Council of Churches USA and liberal theologians who claim a moral superiority to other people of faith.
This is the same James Watt that prevented The Beach Boys from playing a Fourth of July concert in Washington DC during the 80's, because "Rock and Roll music attracts the wrong element..."
This is also the same James Watt that claimed environmentalism was pointless. Why might you ask?
James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. "God gave us these things to use. After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."
So, just as I suspected, Jesus is waiting for us to cut down all of the trees.
This paranoid sense of persecution that is being encouraged by the nutjobs leading the insane faction of American Christians are hurting America.
They should stop.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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