Righteous Anger

From a review of God’s Politics in The Washington Post:

The problem with religious conservatives is not that they invoke religion too much, but that they practice “bad theology,” he argues. He notes that although religious conservatives focus on homosexuality and abstinence, Jesus and Isaiah and Micah had much more to say about poverty and economic justice than sexual impropriety. Therefore, he writes, the Bush administration’s tax policies reflect a “religious failure.” And also: “An enormous public misrepresentation of Christianity has taken place. . . . [M]any people around the world now think Christian faith stands for political commitments that are almost the opposite of its true meaning. How did the faith of Jesus come to be known as pro-rich, pro-war and only pro-American?”