Can we take our faith back from the "Religious Right" yet?

14 Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts

my soul hates.
They have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.

15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even if you offer many prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are full of blood;

16 wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds
out of my sight!
Stop doing wrong,

17 learn to do right!
Seek justice,
encourage the oppressed. ^[a]
Defend the cause of the fatherless,
plead the case of the widow.

18 "Come now, let us reason together,"
says the LORD.
"Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.

~Isaiah 1:14-18 (New International Version)

We're so wrapped up with opposing gay marriage and other wedge issues like abortion, stem cell research, evolution and denying the reality of and our culpability in global warming that we constantly forget the POSITIVE things we could be doing; Listening, caring, feeding, clothing, sheltering, soothing, mentoring, and loving.

As the Christian "Speed-wood" duo, "Lost and Found" says in the lyrics of one of their songs;

"THE KINGDOM'S BIG ENOUGH FOR YOU YOU WERE MADE TO BE HERE TOO THE KINGDOM'S BIG ENOUGH FOR YOU WHERE YOU ARE AS YOU ARE

So many people pushed away Ones that are loved told they can't stay The question is what would Jesus say?

God's own people close the door The loud and the angry take the floor We know what you fear But what are you for?"

Jesus, and therefore His true followers are positive and proactive. You will know a tree by it's fruit. When someone seems like a reactionary, xenophobic, sexist, racist, militaristic, bigoted, a moralist, a legalist, out to make some money or amass power or advance a political or social agenda... they probably are. Mind you, they may not know that they are- so we need to treat them with unconditional love and remember that Jesus died for them too.

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law

~Galatians 5:21-23 (New International Version)

I'm sorry, I don't see lots of love and peace and self-control from our President. And I don't think that Bill O'Rielly, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are very gentle or kind or loving. I'm not saying that Democrats are all pure as wool, but I definitely think that we are kidding ourselves if we think that the United States is a "Christian nation." Christianity begins at home- well, maybe just next door, because I seem to remember Jesus saying something about "love your neighbor." Do you suppose that includes Mexicans, environmentalists, evolutionists, gays, poor people, Black people, and even Muslims?