[Jameison]

"You're making the same mistake liberals make, defining religion to fit your own bias."

Nonsense.
Christianity is Christianity.
There is no "buts" of "ifs" about it.
I cannot see any definition of Christianity that come anywhere near closer to Jessie Jackson's or Jimmy Carter's constant spewing out of Bush hate.
I happen to know my bible.
If you think constantly spewing out vicious hate is Christianity, you have no idea what Christianity is.

[samtheman]

I never said anything about Jackson or Carter. I have no idea about them personally. But there are plenty of liberal Christians.

And even forgetting the word liberal for a moment, let me ask you this:

If George Bush were an Ayn Rand conservative instead of an evangelical conservative, do you think the federal budget would be smaller or larger than it is right now?

I don't care how conservative evangelicals want to be, the fact is they are lured by the same self-sacrifice garbage that the left is. Although they are a million times more worthy than the leftists, as individuals and as a group, the fact is, they still have this incredible weakness for the self-sacrifice myth, which is easily exploited, even with the best of intentions. As in the case of W.