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Methodist neighbor writes:
This is from an interview with Brad Whitford who plays deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on “West Wing.”
NOTE: His character on “West Wing” is Jewish. His IMDB bio says he graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, but does not say if he is Methodist. His UMC position on the Death Penalty makes me believe he may be. He has a point! - Scott
Interview:
It’s very upsetting to me, as someone who’s a political junkie, that it’s a great virtue to name yourself a Christian and use it as a tremendous political advantage that gives you a moral standing, but then we don’t hold these people to actual standards. Maybe you believe the best response to 9/11 was to invade Iraq, maybe you still think that tens of thousands of [Iraqi] lives later, it’s still fine, butdon’t tell me it’s Christian.
Maybe you think executing prisoners through the death penalty as a way to reduce crime is fine, but it’s not Christian. Maybe you think giving a schmuck like me on TV a quarter million [dollars] in tax relief over the last five years when I didn’t need it, while we have record deficits and soldiers without armor - it’s not Christian.
Jesus wasn’t a supply-side guy. This is a really polarizing, horribly polarizing time, and it’s really obscene to me that people take all he politicians and use faith as a label and then don’t execute the values that it’s all about. If you are going to make these choices, don’t tell me it’s Christian; it’s not.
This is from an interview with Brad Whitford who plays deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on “West Wing.”
NOTE: His character on “West Wing” is Jewish. His IMDB bio says he graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, but does not say if he is Methodist. His UMC position on the Death Penalty makes me believe he may be. He has a point! - Scott
Interview:
It’s very upsetting to me, as someone who’s a political junkie, that it’s a great virtue to name yourself a Christian and use it as a tremendous political advantage that gives you a moral standing, but then we don’t hold these people to actual standards. Maybe you believe the best response to 9/11 was to invade Iraq, maybe you still think that tens of thousands of [Iraqi] lives later, it’s still fine, butdon’t tell me it’s Christian.
Maybe you think executing prisoners through the death penalty as a way to reduce crime is fine, but it’s not Christian. Maybe you think giving a schmuck like me on TV a quarter million [dollars] in tax relief over the last five years when I didn’t need it, while we have record deficits and soldiers without armor - it’s not Christian.
Jesus wasn’t a supply-side guy. This is a really polarizing, horribly polarizing time, and it’s really obscene to me that people take all he politicians and use faith as a label and then don’t execute the values that it’s all about. If you are going to make these choices, don’t tell me it’s Christian; it’s not.