Just a reminder, I'm reviewing the book, God's Politics: A New Vision for Faith and Politics by Jim Wallis of Sojourners.  The subtitle of this chapter is "Co-opted by the Right, Dismissed by the Left".  In this chapter Wallis encourages us to take back our faith from what he sees as the hijacking of the Christian faith by the Republican Party and the ignoring at best or being hostile to the Christian faith at worst by the Democratic Party.

He states:

It's time to reassert and reclaim the gospel faith - especially in our public life.  When we do, we discover that faith challenges the powers that be to do justice for the poor, instead of preaching a "prosperity gospel" and supporting politicians who further enrich the wealthy.  We remember that faith hates violence and tries to reduce it and exerts a fundamental presumption against war, instead of trying to justify it in God's name.  We see that faith creates community from racial, class, and gender divisions and prefers international community over nationalist religion, and we see that "God bless America" is found nowhere in the Bible.  And we are reminded that faith regards matters such as the sacredness of life and family bonds as so important that they should never be used as ideological symbols or mere political pawns in partisan warfare.

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