Religion and Politics

Today’s cup from the Brewer comes perking with feisty right wing flavors and liberal doses of what I hope will leave a good aftertaste. I’m highly caffeinated today – be warned.

I very rarely state my political views from the pulpit or PC but not because I don’t have any. I am a passionate person and whatever I feel is typically in full tilt. If you have read this column through the years it should not surprise you to learn some people would accuse me of being a little right wing of Attila the Hun. That’s not true…well for the most part.

The Sleeping Giant

Ten years ago I was invited to be on a political panel at a TCU debate as a special guest where they thought because I am so liberal in helping people; I would somehow be liberal in political arenas.

Some knucklehead suggested we as a nation owe Japan an apology for dropping the bomb on them back in ’45 and then turned to me and said “Reverend Brewer, don’t you agree?” I said I think Japan owes the world an apology for being a nation of rapists and locusts before we saw fit to put an end to their death march across the pacific.

Furthermore I said Japan owed us a great big thank you for only dropping two bombs on his highness the 666^th emperor and for rebuilding their nation afterwards. For some strange reason I was never invited back.

It insulted me that because they knew I was a Christian who reaches out to hurting people, they actually thought I would be a pacifist pansy. As the prophet John Wayne said in Big Jake, “Not hardly.”

About seven years ago, I was in London England and came across several hundred protesting socialists bad mouthing America and burning Uncle Sam. I’m no Dixie chick so I protested the protesters. Me and Andy Dally stood out there yelling, “God bless America!” As the Prophetess Flo said to Mel at the diner, “They can kiss my grits.”

Good Guys

So believe me when I tell you I do have passionate political views. I’ve been to tea parties this year and town halls. Like a lot of you, I have been very unhappy with our nation’s current administration. It completely pegged my cringe meter when our Commander In Chief literally bowed down to the Muslim king in Saudi Arabia this year.

I can’t say it surprised me, but oh how it turned my stomach. On that same trip he announced “While we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation” and that it could be said “we are one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Then he apologized to the world for how we have defended ourselves against our enemies and “in America there is a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role.” In my view the bad guys are very happy with our president.

The bad guys to me are the brainwashed Neanderthals who think they will get a free ticket to heaven complete with 70 perpetual virgins for decapitating our families. While many people in the world are not sure if this fits into their file of a bad guy, it sure fits into mine. We are the good guys and if Egypt and France don’t understand that, I would refer them to John Wayne or Flo from Mel’s diner.

I am wildly patriotic and I don’t care who doesn’t like it. If you cut me I will bleed red, white and blue. Not only am I an American, I am a sixth-generation Texan which makes me an American on steroids. So you would think these are the kinds of things I would write about every week but its not.

I am much more passionate about my hope in Jesus Christ.

The truth in Jesus is so much greater than the facts of politics. I am not an ambassador for all things American. I am an ambassador for the Kingdom of God and my highest agenda is to influence the world for Jesus.

So it should not surprise you to know President Obama has the fullest support of the Brewer in every way I am able to support him. As an Ambassador of Jesus Christ he can expect me to honor him. He can also expect me to hate anarchy, injustice and poverty. I pray for him everyday and if you are a Christian this should also be your position too.

Hoping for the Best

It doesn’t mean you have to support every policy and it doesn’t mean you can’t rigorously fight against his policies if you disagree, but president Obama should be able to expect Kingdom people to be blessers and loyalists.

Every Christian should want nothing but good things to happen to our president. He captured 53% of the vote and a huge part of it was due to race. Only 4 out of every 100 black voters voted against Obama. I say this because if something terrible happened to this president it would cause a racial division in our nation which might take another 100 years to overcome. The Kingdom of Hell would love for something like that to happen and there should not be a Christian alive who would partner with those kinds of words or even thoughts. Pray for our President!

To sum it up, it’s not about our opinions near as much as it is about the King’s agenda. The grace of God and the message of Christ are greater than any evil in our day. Jesus really is the solution and my hope is in him. God bless president Obama and God bless the United States of America. God bless everybody, on both sides of the isle, especially those I just really hacked off.