December 9, 2006 journal, following the GOP is the biggest mistake the modern church has made. Because Bill Clinton was so evil the stage was set for a much worse president than Clinton, the devil himself. It could be said the devil incarnate, it is the raw power of Satan. This is not a war, it is a massacre. From the Iraqi side they showed 4 caskets for little children from the air raid on that apartment building where we claim to have killed 21 insurgences including 2 women. They put a spin on all of this. The study group found that when we increase the troops the vio*lence also increases. Rumsfeld returned to the scene of the crime one more time saying we must stay on till we win the war on nothing.

A second article of good sense appears in the Times Examiner by Chuck Baldwin entitled In the GOP We Trust. "Today's column is written primarily for the benefit of my fellow Christians and pastors. More than 31 years as a minister of the gospel qualifies me to broach this subject. We Christians profess to trust in God. We preachers instruct people to trust in God. Furthermore, "In God We Trust" has been our national motto every since the passengers of the Mayflower sewed the saying into the sail of their ship. However, I fear that a vast number of Christians, along with their pastors, have allowed their faith in God to be supplanted. This is especially true when it comes to affairs of state. When it comes to finances, we are told to trust in God, when it comes to relationships, we are told a trust in God, when it comes to occupational concerns, we are told to trust in God, ditto for family matters, health concerns, anxiety, church, etc. However, when it comes to the governmental concerns, we are instructed to trust in the GOP. Some will say that I am exaggerating the subject or trying to oversimplify a complex issue, but I am not. When one blows away the smoke, Christian ministers throughout American have sold out their congregations on the notion that only "spiritual" thing we can do regarding affairs of state is to support the Republican Party no matter what. I have heard national Christian leaders shamelessly say that they are "just as hard" on Republicans as they are on Democrats. That is nonsense! The misdeeds, mad machinations, and mendaciousness of Republicans are routinely ignored and even lauded by Christian ministers. The reason given by these Christian leaders compromise of principle is, "Republicans are better than the alternative" It is indeed "lesser of 2 evils" mantra we hear over and over again. My question is, "What happened to trusting God?" Why is it that we are instructed to trust God with every other detail of life, but when it comes to governmental affairs, we must trust, not God, but the GOP? Yet, how low do we have to go? How much compromise of truth, dereliction of duty, the abandonment of constitutional government and the betrayal of our fundamental principle must we accept? Apparently, there is no bottom. I am already hearing leaders of the Republican Right say that they will support the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, even if he or she is pro-choice and pro g-a-ymarriage. This argument (try not to laugh): a pro-abortion, prog-a-y marriage Republican is not as bad as a pro abortion, prog-a-y marriage Democrat. What is pathetically sad is that it appears that the illustrious leaders of the religious right are genuinely sincere in the above reasoning. Equally sad is the reality that these same evangelical leaders have already proven that they will give Republicans a pass on infinitely important issues such as the dismantlement of constitutional liberty (i.e. the Patriot Act) a sellout of American sovereignty via Draconian "free trade:" deals, massive illegal immigration which sacrifice of American culture and even security, the wholesale explosion of federal spending. This is accepted, because it is the Republican George W. that has led it, had it been a Democrat the same people would be leading the opposition.