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Ravenous, Vicious Little Men

David Kuo, a former deputy in the White House Office of the Faith Based Initiative, has taken it upon himself to author a book where he maintains that the Faith Based Initiative falls terribly short of it promise and that White House officials routinely mock prominent Evangelicals describing them as: “nuts, goofy and boorish.” Perhaps, […]

David Kuo, a former deputy in the White House Office of the Faith Based Initiative, has taken it upon himself to author a book where he maintains that the Faith Based Initiative falls terribly short of it promise and that White House officials routinely mock prominent Evangelicals describing them as: “nuts, goofy and boorish.” Perhaps, Kuo should take a closer look in the mirror. ~Jason Christy

Mr. Christy’s article has the charitable title of “David Kuo: An Addition to the Axis of Evil.”  I have no particular brief for Mr. Kuo or the “faith-based initiative” idea, which I regard as a dangerous intrusion of the federal government into the work of religious charities and churches and the establishment of an unhealthy dependence of churches and charities on the state.  I am not sorry to see that it has by and large failed.  I do not consider it a proper way of bringing Christian leaven into politics, since it leavens nothing and serves mainly to expand the power of the state. 

But the way that the hacks have brought out the knives against this man for stating the merely obvious (the Bush administration exploits and uses Christian believers, whom they then disparage and belittle as fools in private) is remarkable.  The hatred directed against Mr. Kuo in the article cited above would be inexplicable if the conservative Christians who launch such attacks were seriously concerned about the dangers of political power corrupting a faithful witness to Christ; if their main good is seeing Republican power extended and preserved, the viciousness of the assault makes a little more sense.  In a bitterly ironic conclusion, Mr. Christy writes:

David Kuo forgot one important lesson: Judge not lest ye be judged.  

What a joke!  These ravenous, vicious little men invoke Our Lord when it pleases them but, when a real witness is required, they scurry out of the light while singing hymns to the All-Father that is the GOP.  You will note in Mr. Christy’s article that he nowhere effectively refutes anything that Mr. Kuo has said, but like some spinmeister notes all the money that is being spent, as if this were proof of either good policy or the administration’s good faith.

In other news, David Kuo now blogs at Beliefnet.

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