Dave Shiflett says don't be too scared

Southern Appeal brought this to my attention before. Apparently, some of the reasonable have been running around again crying, "the Christians are coming! The Christians are coming!

Quick! Hide the prime-time porn and Gay-marriage rehersal guides! Hide the local funding initiatives for multi-million grossing Planned Parenthood! The Christians are coming.

Yep. There they are, those da** Theocrats:

The fear of Episcopalians establishing a theocracy, even in a small hamlet, is highly amusing, something akin to fearing a military takeover led by the Kiwanis Club. Such is the level of hysteria.

Yet one finds little of the crusading spirit of religious certitude even among the dread born-again Christians and Evangelicals. Pollsters, including the much-quoted George Barna, have instead divined widespread heterodoxy and a live-and-let-live attitude.

Born-again Christians simply aren’t as generally advertised. Consider their view of Jesus, once regarded as the Sinless One. Twenty-eight percent agree that “while he lived on earth, Jesus committed sins, like other people.” That is far from a crusading belief. Even further afield, 35 percent of these supposedly hard-core believers do not believe Jesus experienced a physical resurrection, a belief shared by 39 percent of the general population (85 percent of Americans say they believe that Jesus is “spiritually alive,” whatever that may mean. One recalls that many Americans believe their deceased pets are now ghosts, which may also qualify as being spiritually alive.

Oh, yeah! The secularists shake in their boots while the Christians line up the new killing fields. Because, Fools are all about gulags, donchaknow!

Maybe if they stopped being so reasonable, they could act like Fools! They might learning something. Like, what is actually true!

Then they'd understand why they lost the White House, Congress and most of the state houses. The Fools in the heartland aren't deconstructing their gender-based, patriachal reinforced identities in order to reconstruct a more heterogeneous and egalitarian hermeunetic. They're living the lives God gave them to the best of their ability.

Maybe the reasonable should put down the cocktails and actually talk to someone that faithfully attends a church. They'd sleep better at night if they did. Besides, didn't Jonah Goldberg already talk to them?