50 MOST LOATHSOME AMERICANS OF 2008

According to "America's Best Friend", The Beast, here are the 50 most loathsome people of 2008!!




Who's number 50? Barack Obama.




His Charge: Beyond a few token acts of bipartisan marketing, Barry's major duty in the Senate was to avoid legislating, so he could pretend Washington-outsider status and nullify attacks on his non-existent policy positions.




Exhibit A: “Yes we can” is the “Just do it” of politics.




His Sentence: Presiding over the decline of an exhausted empire.

Who would you add? What would be their charge and their sentence? Let me know.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHRISTIANS

Does the Church do a good job of addressing Domestic Violence? According to an article in Christianity Today, one in four domestic violence situations comes from a Christian home. Having worked as a counselor for a Domestic Violence center I know that domestic violence is a problem we have in our culture. I'm afraid that much of Christianity subtly condones forms of domestic abuse with the patriarchal gender roles that many Christians subscrible to.

It doesn't help when Christian leaders, such as Rick Warren make statements that support domestic abuse and other forms of violence.

For more on this check out the article "Biblical Battered Wife Syndrome".

Its living in paradigms such as these that has moved me further away from the established church and more into being what I'm now seeing myself as, a Post-Christian. In my view the established Church is becoming less able to be what it needs to be in our culture to the extent that it may not be able to be the transformational community that its called to be. In order to break away from the corrupted and neutered form of power that the Church exudes, I am looking for alternative ways to live out my call to justice and love.