Church and Politics

It's an interesting relationship. Personally, I'd prefer not to have unsolicited advice on my political choices from my church. That said, it's difficult to avoid.

I received an email from a fellow member of my church that was attempting to recruit volunteers for a McCain event in conjunction with the debate that will be here in Nashville next month. It was sent to a large mailing list whose purpose is to easily reach all the members of the "Singles Group" of my church. This bothered me and I attempted to passive-aggressively let her know that. My response to her (not to the list): "I would be interested in volunteering for a Barack Obama event. Could you send out information for that?"
Either she didn't receive the message I intended or simply chose to keep everything on the high road: "unfortunately I don't have that info - but I do encourage you to get involved!!"
Now, I can become what made me angry in the first place and send out a message to elicit Obama supporters. Or I just let her use the church's email list to garner political support for a presidential candidate. I will most likely choose the latter, but it still bugs me.
I know that Tennessee is pretty much in the bag for McCain - but that's not really the point. Am I getting hot-headed over nothing? Probably. Please tell me I'm not, though.

Bail Out

So.
It appears that the American Experiment isn't working. At least not the economic side of things. I am by no means an economist, but I can see the merit of trying out this experiment of free-market capitalism. The problem is that we aren't really trying that. Politics and mafia-movie-style pressure from corporations make us just as susceptible to the downfalls of any other economic system. When we venture from pure capitalism, we ruin the experiment. Oh well, I think Stephen Colbert put it very aptly...



"Screw or be screwed" - it's the Darwinism of economics. If I screw up, I'll just put the screws to the screwballs in charge, so I can screw more people later.

SCREW IT!