An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Faith? In What?
Democrats open faith-filled convention with prayer
At the first official event Sunday of the Democratic National Convention, a choir belted out a gospel song and was followed by a rabbi reciting a Torah reading about forgiveness and the future.
Helen Prejean, the Catholic nun who wrote “Dead Man Walking,” assailed the death penalty and the use of torture.
Young Muslim women in headscarves sat near older African-American women in their finest Sunday hats.
Four years ago, such a scene would have been unthinkable at a Democratic National Convention. In 2004, there was one interfaith lunch at the Democratic gala in Boston.
And you’ll excuse me if I find it rather incomprehensible now. This? The party of kill the babies, but not the murderers? “Faith”? In what? Who were they praying to? Was it the same God that the Founding Fathers invoked when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, or the U.S. Constitution? Or was it one that I’m not aware of, one that doesn’t create life, doesn’t dispense justice? Is it a god of ‘feel good’ but not do good?
Is it the God of the Torah of Judaism, the Old and New Testaments of the Christians? Or, was it some other, more obscure one? Was Allah invoked instead? The deity that is followed by those who would see us all dead? Seriously, I’m asking, because what I see as their “faith”, it’s no where near the faith I grew up with as a Christian and U.S. citizen.
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