It has come to crunch time, my friends. I cannot imagine an environment in the future where things could be more stark or more clear than they are today.
Yesterday, one of you told me you voted a straight Republican ticket, right here in Alaska. I tried to tell you about the Newsweek article about Palin and you just refused to believe it.
You voted for a felon convicted of corruption, another under investigation for corruption, and another who is so corrupt even the Republican Party is going after her.
We've had many fruitful and interesting conversations about God, spirituality and religion. I have always respected your intellect, insight and conduct.
That respect has diminished over the course of this election. My question is this: When you were born again, weren't you blessed with spiritual insight?
I was born again, although it wasn't slam dunk into the religion into which you were born again. I was born again as a Bahai, so technically speaking, I'm Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Muslim etc. One gift I received when I regained my spiritual "eyes" was a degree of spiritual discernment. Where is yours?
How is it that you, with your "born again eyes" can look at an election where one side sowed seeds of division and hatred and the other preached unity and cooperation - and go for division and hatred?
I have always respected you. You are an exemplary Christian in your private life. Thousands, if not millions of Christians saw through the bull and voted for the only spiritually righteous candidate in the election.
I have hosted you numerous times in my home, and sent you out with tons of leftovers. Never once have you invited me to your home. I have given you opportunites and given you gifts, and it took ten years before you sent me a token - I presume out of guilt.
You are a community, and now I hear from you less and less. What's the problem? Is your faith and spirituality so weak than now you must be protected from me?
It's over. I no longer respect your religion or your purported "spirtuality". It will forever be difficult for me to engage in such conversations with you, because you trashed your credibility when you voted for the most corrupt, greedy, self-serving, soul-less individuals on the ticket. If you can't "see" the way Jesus taught us to see, you are mere Pharisees. Lost. Gone. Goodbye.