Hypocritical Christians.

I asked World War II veteran Ed Hinrichs (my neighbor) if he was bothered having to fight and kill Germans. Especially since he's of German heritage. Ed came up with a surprising and thoughtful answer. What fazed him, he said, was the fact that Christians on both sides were fighting and killing each other. Americans and Germans largely share the same religious faiths. But that didn't stop them from going to calamitous war. Sounded sort of un-Christian to Ed. He's Catholic. Anyway, I gotta agree with Ed. Thing is that people of the same religious faiths, even of the same denomination, often find that they are adversaries. In fact, arch enemies. Pitched against each other. In war. Strictly because of politics. Turns out they sometimes hate each other. When their shared religions call for them to love -- even their enemies. Might be nice if some day one's spiritual beliefs carry more weight and priority than one's political beliefs. Right now in America, we have a great political divide, verging upon the hateful, between Democrats and Republicans. But both parties are dominated by self-professed Christians. Maybe with a hypocritcal bent. Acting more like non-Christians when it comes to politics. --Jim Broede