Actually, the headline was just my way of getting your attention. I do think we should beat Republicans with a stick, though.

So it’s the eve of Election Day here in the grand old United States of America, and it seems people are waking up to the idea that being Christian doesn’t necessarily mean being Republican. We have pro-life Democrats getting elected, former Methodist ministers running under the same party label as Ted Kennedy, and more. And if tonight is any indication, America wants it. What does this spell? Well, Jim Wallis thinks it means bad news for fundamentalists. Here’s the lessons we can take away, he says:

When Democrats can run authentically as persons of faith, they can beat back the idolatrous claims of the Religious Right that God is only on their side. And when Democrats take a more morally sensible and centrist position on issues like abortion, they do better than liberal Democrats have done. These results are bad news for the “religious fundamentalists” who have far too much influence in the Republican Party, AND for the “secular fundamentalists” who have far too much influence in the Democratic Party. But it is good news for the majority of Americans who are alienated by the political extremes of right and left and are hungry for a new “moral center” for our public life. More good news may lie ahead tonight. 

I’ve been out of it with a cold for the week and my brain is a bit too foggy to say anything more. Come to think of it, that’s how my whole life has been recently… too blurry to see through the windshield, and I keep fumbling around for the wiper lever. I’m learning to shrug it off and live the little moments the best I can anyway. I’m just waiting until I run off the road, though.