It's Time to Stop Looking to Big Christianity to Adhere to its Moral Foundation

Just like Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Milk, we now have Big Christianity.

In a recent post, some folks who have studied Big Christianity, some of them from the inside, explain why It is becoming increasingly inured to fielding people who seem to have moral values to which the Christian Conservatives should not be able to subscribe.

It seems that it is impossible to find decent people to run for the GOP (which is where Christian Conservatives have traditionally looked for leadership), so they make do with weirdos, some of whose objectives coincide with those of Big Christianity.  They think of it as a war, where you sometimes have to compromise.

So there you have it.  They're making pacts with the Devil, only I think it is too harsh to say that You-Know-Who is the devil.  He just looks for self-aggrandizement, avoiding taxes, and retaliation against friends who betray him.  Foolishness is not a sin.  It is only a crime.

One of these days, we're going to have to address the morals of our immigration policy.  The Democrats carry on as if it is a simple thing, and as if the Republicans are doing it all wrong.  Unfortunately, everyone in Congress adheres to various immigration principles that are difficult to articulate diplomatically, and if we were to list them, everyone would see what a can of worms it is.  So all immigration policy discussion is based on euphemisms and dog-whistle rhetoric.  If you think about this long enough, and if you separate the principles from each other carefully enough to reduce the issues into a dozen or more independent ones, you could probably arrive at reasonable conclusions without my mediation.

To Be Continued.

Archimedes.