Just like the politics of terrorism, the politics of Christianity makes strange bedfellows. In the world of terrorism, the Bush administration and al-Qaeda feed off each other relentlessly. It is well known that the invasion of Iraq made turned George Bush into al-Qaeda's best recruiter. Likewise, the main effect of al-Qaida schemes is to increase support for the Bush administration in the U. S.
Maybe they're working together.
The same is the case with the religion wars in America. The cranky purists who sue over every religious symbol in a public place are actually helping evangelical activists by giving them a reason to portray American Christianity as "under attack." Every time someone who is super-senstive about the Ten Commandments, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny sues a school system, it inspires evangelical activists then push even harder to put up monuments to the Ten Commandments in every nook and cranny of public space. This, in turn, motivates the cranky purists to file more lawsuits.
Yesterday's Tulsa World reported on a case in Haskell County, Okahoma where a court upheld the construction of as monument to the Ten Commandments on the court house lawn. The idea and money for the monument came pastor Mike Bush who though that God had burdened him with the idea while the lawsuit was filed by Stigler residents with the support of the ACLU. Both the religious and anti-religious activists gained money and publicity from the lawsuit.
Maybe they're in it together.
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