BernieHund: The Political Watchdog

My mother always admonished me that proper ladies don’t discuss politics or religion.  She never said anything about politicians discussing religion.  The present political agenda is beginning to look like a SNL skit.  You know the one where the woman says she has a bathtub in her bathroom, and someone says she has a jacuzzi in hers, and the first woman says she has an ocean in her bathroom… and on and on and on…. one topping the other until there is nothing left that can top it.  Well, this political campaign is beginning to look that way.  So, let’s just say that all our candidates are believers and Christian in one form or another.  Please… let’s just accept it. 

This brings me to a conversation I had with a Hindu friend one afternoon.  He asked if I was a Christian.  I didn’t answer directly, but asked why he had asked me that.  He said he had heard of Jesus and wanted to know which one I believed in.  Perhaps, my blank stare spurred him on.  He refined his question by asking if I believed in the Baptist Jesus or the Methodist Jesus or the Episcopal Jesus. 

Now, we have political candidates who are convinced that he/she will be elected because he/she is more religious, more Christian than the next.  And, each of the candidates this week has spoken of his or her beliefs.  We aren’t electing a Pope!  We are electing a President. 

I have to admit that I am very leery of anyone who has to tell me that he or she is a Christian, regardless of the sect.  Walk the walk, folks.  

I suppose Jonathan Swift put it best, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.”

P.S.  Happy Hannakuh!