American Christianity

I don't ever post here, I just use the account to comment. But this is worth posting:

"A lot of my songs are really political. nobody gets it...my politics and my religious convictions. There's something offensive to me about having an American flag in a church building. When the CIA pretended to be missionaries and caused trouble in Chile so that all missionaries were kicked out, I think that makes the United States the enemy of the kingdom of God. I think a government that requires 18-year-old boys to register for the draft is anti-life. I agree that life is sacred to fetuses, but I also think it's sacred to 18-year-olds. Where were you people when Nixon was in the White House? When Lyndon Johnson was escalating the war? ...It does seem funny to me that so many people who are anti-abortion are pro-capital punishment. I really struggle with American Christianity. I'm not really sure that people with our cultural disabilities are capable of having souls, or being saved ... a culture that worships pleasure, leisure, and affluence. The church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as a vehicle for achieving all of that. Like, if you give a tithe, He'll make you rich. "

- Rich Mullins - December 6,1996 from here.