Election day thoughts

Well, today is the big day. Campaigning has reached a frenzied pace, the attack ads have been hitting over the weekend. Some pastors have been preaching why Obama is God’s selection and other pastors have been preaching why McCain is God’s selection. Either quite a few pastors are not hearing God correctly or God was wrong, not sure which one the wrong pastors will go with at the end of the day.

I am very excited about voter turnout, looks like records are going to be shattered. It’s about time the people of this country decided to vote. What I’m not so excited about is the rhetoric being tossed about by both sides. To demonize either party isn’t the way of Jesus. Loving your enemy seems to not apply when supporting candidates, specifically parties.

I decided to gather a few links for you all to peruse, good and bad thoughts for future elections.

James Dobson, please don’t write another piece of fiction like this. (link downloads a PDF file)

Here is the rebuttal to James Dobson’s letter.

Relevant Magazine’s fantastic site had a fansasticer (I don’t think that’s a real word) post about Shane Claiborne & Chris Haw’s journey across the USA asking Americans to think about their vote.

Happy Voting Day everyone!
-Rex Barrett
image via niznoz