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• 11.05.08
  Why Politics is More Exciting than Christianity
  Ecclesiology, News, Theology (3)

  Watching people's passionate involvement in the intense politics of the past month or so has been an interesting phenomenon.  We literally had millions of people working in one way or another to get their candidates elected, and last night we watched as euphoria erupted over an election of historic proportions. It left me wondering: Why doesn't the church drum up this much excitement and passion? My preliminary guess is that politics offers the kind of eschatology that should be offered in the church. With each major election people talk and think about change.  New possibilites begin to form in imaginations.  "What if..." ...