I’ve been added to the Progressive Christian Bloggers Network. The blogroll is on the right-hand menu here.

As a liberal spirituality-obsessed woman I love this idea. Despite my categorization in some (unnamed) blog directories as an “agnostic,” I have deep religious convictions. In many ways I am a Christian – or at least Christian-leaning. I am encouraged to see at least some serious Christians speaking out on the themes of love, compassion, grace and forgiveness as they relate to the political situation. There has been too little of that as we fall into the mirror of terrorism with our own hard-core fundamentalist movements.

There are some who have been deceived into believing that God supports hard-heartedness, intolerance, and authoritarian control. That ain’t the message of Christianity, folks. Nor do gross theft, hate-mongering, the rhetoric of the forked tongue, or murder and slaughter lead to approval from the highest source and being of love. Some of the so-called “christians” I’ve been dealing with lately refuse to confront basic issues such as the treatment of “the least of these my brothers.” The way you treat the lowest of the low reveals how much you’ve taken to heart the message. Some of the ones who call themselves christians would kill Jesus again today, especially in Texas.

Many of these blogs are just what I have been looking for – a reassertion of the values and beliefs that should be causing cognitive dissonance. The central message of Jesus is a very very good one, one that seems to have been forgotten in this time of the warlike pseudofather god and its numerous false prophets for profit.

My feeling today, despite the very theatrical unveiling of name of the next Supreme Court nominee in a few minutes – don’t kid yourself, it will be a serious right-winger – is that there really is hope for the future. If the electoral process is freed, there may yet be a chance to save this country from utter ruin. Even the most dogged King George loyalist has got to start asking him or herself a few basic questions, if only for self-survival.