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Tuesday, 2008 August 19 10:01 PM MDT — Arvada, Colorado UNITED STATES

“Mixing religion with politics is bad enough, but the real danger is mixing politics with religion.”

So, I'm wasting my life away here in Denver. As much as Denver is nice, it's not the corner of the world where the excitement happens. Well, come a week or two, that's going to change. The eyes and ears of the world will focus on what's happening here as journalists and reporters ascend en masse upon the Mile-High City.

The city of Denver has been preparing for over a month for the masses of people come to witness the coronation of the messiah and the masses of people come to scream and shout of the incarnation of the antichrist. Personally, I'm eager for the convention to happen.

Others that I know… well… you have to know a little bit of my background. I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family, attended a fundamentalist Christian church and went to an überfundamentalist Christian high school. Let's just say that I'm well familiar with the fundamentalist train of thought — both its masterpieces in cognition and its epic failures. Point being, I hear things, and I've heard of some titanic-sized demonstration being planed by a few fundamentalist Christian groups.

I do not know why it's the way that things are, but, for some reason, the Republican Party is almost synonymous with Christianity in some fundamentalists' minds. I even remember a case where a church expelled some of its members because they voted for Kerry in the last election.¹

Mixing religion with politics is bad enough, but the real danger is mixing politics with religion. Okay, in the purest form of that statement, I don't believe that at all, but given the state of either the Republican of Democratic parties, proclaiming either one of these particular parties as the model for Christian thought (or just plain human thought for that matter) would be the epitome of psycholunacy. I can admire the Republican stance on certain issues, but the Democratic theme is… just better. Some of my closest friends, my favourite people and the best examples of Christian attitudes are Democrats. It's kind of hard not to say something when the idiot fundamentalists decide that they don't pass for Christians on political reasons.

I could go on, but I need to know when to stop typing.