I supported Obama not because he preached the change I could believe in but because a Mccain Presidency (not to mention a Palin Vice Presidency) was just too much to risk (we would probably be at war with Iran right now if he were president).

As much as I want change to happen, I realize one man can’t do it by himself. There are massive and wealthy forces in Washington, the board rooms of corporate headquarters, media newsrooms and the halls of the Pentagon that have a vested interest in keeping things the way they are. The problem is that we have a public that is too overworked to bring about change. The only thing most of us have time for when we get home from our day of toil is entertainment, and the American media gives us just that.

I still have hope for the future, though, because I believe in a God of Justice who still has the power to energize people through the Holy Spirit. This is what the church needs to do: inspire and energize people to bring about the change we need and can believe in because it’s backed up not by a man (albeit a very intelligent one) but the maker of the universe.

And why – more to the point – the Christian left (not the secular one) hasn’t at least woke up and got on with the Gospel instead of still hoping that Obama will one day go to a liberal church and get everything right.

The Christian Left is exactly a mirror image and moral equivalent to the Christian right. Scary, mobbish and willing to cede to the gov’t the duties of making a world that God has given to the Church.