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04/17/2005: "Frist’s War on Infidels"

News item: “Senator Bill Frist, the Majority Leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as ‘against people of faith’ for blocking President Bush’s nominees.” The flyer for the telecast shows a young man with the words “public service,” “faith in Christ,” and “he should not have to choose.” Perhaps readers of SherWright.com find this poster and Dr. Sen. Frist’s involvement with this event confusing, since it implies that Senate Democrats have established atheism as a litmus test of nominees. It’s confusing because 85% of Americans call themselves Christian and polls consistently show the US as one of the most religious nations on earth. It would seem to be an odd political strategy for elected representatives to boycott judicial candidates based of characteristics they have in common with the overwhelming majority of voters and presumably the Democratic senators themselves! Thus, as a public service, SherWright will devote several of this journal’s entries to defending the logic behind Dr. Sen. Frists’s latest crusade, for how else are we to call his brave defense of Christian belief? Let’s start by noting that 19% of Christians feel that theirs is the one true religion. Then let’s observe that Christian belief stems from interpretations of scripture. Thus, the clear reason that Frist the politician is enlisted in this crusade is that 1) he is one of the lucky few who has ended up with the only true faith and 2) this faith is based on the one true set of interpretations of scripture. Makes sense so far? The then let’s consider that politics of the extreme right wing come straight from the Bible, but the Bible was written before there were Republicans and Democrats. You thus have to look at how the policies of a particular party are supported by correct interpretations of scripture in order to determine that party’s godliness. The extreme right wing feels that they have a lock on political godliness, but hasn’t really spelled out why. This is thus an area that SherWright.com can add value, by providing the specific scriptural justifications for the Truth of the extreme right wing’s political platform. Here’s the first of the examples we’ll be exploring over the next several days, the political strategy specifically mentioned in Frist’s telecast: the threatened use by Democrats of the filibuster against the 10 out of 204 nominees previously rejected and that the Bush Administration has now re-nominated. That is clearly sinful, based on the scriptures “thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people” and particularly “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.” Now doesn’t that clear things up?