How the GOP Became God's Own Party

To say that this article made me irritated is an understatement.

To say this article simply made me roll my eyes and snicker...Well that's an understatement, too.

To say that this article angered me, made me shake my head, and made me wonder why Kevin Phillips blames it all on the faith in the Bible rather than stop and appreciate that Republicans can be educated & well-informed, well, that's more like it. (And if you ask me, it takes a much wiser person to know that humans, in and of ourselves, could not just exist from our own creation in something so complex. Having faith in something, or someone, requires much more from a person and much more knowledge. Kind of along the lines of "the more we know, the more we find we don't know".)

He writes of the Republican party,

"No leading world power in modern memory has become a captive of the sort of
biblical inerrancy that dismisses modern knowledge and science."

And he writes,

"Unfortunately, three of the preeminent weaknesses displayed in these past
declines have been religious excess, a declining energy and industrial base, and
debt often linked to foreign and military overstretch. Politics in the United
States -- and especially the evolution of the governing Republican coalition --
deserves much of the blame for the fatal convergence of these forces in America
today."

Hmmm. The GOP being God's party? Last I checked, we are ALL meant to be a part of God's party. Not Republican or Democrat, but that which is most like Christ. And out of bitterness and mockery, this writer labels the GOP "God's own Party". If this is God's party, I would rather be a part of it than not.