Kottke’s analysis<\/a>
\nthis morning is refreshing. Those of us on the left in Australia still shell
\nshocked by the victories of both Howard and Bush would do well to read it.<\/p>\nI take issue with Kottke on one point. Evangelical Christians, amongst
\nwhom I count myself, are not a homogeneous group. Sure there’s a vocal group,
\nmaybe the majority, who regard George Bush as God’s president. But there’s
\nlots of us who regard social equity, sovereign rights of states and use of
\nwar only as a last resort as extremely important. <\/p>\n
Please remember this when thinking about Evangelical Christians. Remember it
\nwas also an evangelical Christian, Wilber<\/s> William Wilberforce, who led
\nthe fight in England to abolish slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There’s so much analysis of the US election result it’s hard to know where to start. As a member of Robert Manne’s pro-Labor, left-liberal intelligentsia, I’ve been mainly reading the handwringing by Democratic commentators and followers. Kottke’s analysis this morning is refreshing. Those of us on the left in Australia still shell shocked by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}