Reading notes

The Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright, was scathing about Blair’s military alliance with Bush in Iraq. He likened them to a pair of mavericks fighting crime in multi-racial inner-city London.

“For Bush and Blair to go into Iraq together was like a bunch of white vigilantes going into Brixton to stop drug-dealing. This is not to deny there’s a problem to be sorted, just that they are not credible people to deal with it,” he told The Independent newspaper. …

Wright said the religious conservatives surrounding Bush espouse “a very strange distortion of Christianity” while the fact “some of them stand to benefit financially from the reconstruction of Iraq” made their motives suspicious.

It’s this strange distortion of Christianity with which I can’t bring myself to be associated. It’s really not following Jesus at all, but its practitioners act like they’ll shoot you for pointing that out. Maybe I’ll get past where I am to participate toward an undistorted resolution; if I’m making progress it’s way slower than I’d hoped.

[via The Right Christians]