(I am expanding upon yesterday’s “God and Bates in Tulsa” theme of faith in the public square.)

On Thursday, Nov. 3, Jesus Christ, the Lord of all creation, reprimanded J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), Speaker of the House of Representatives, in the rotunda of the Capitol. The only begotten Son of God “gave [Hastert] an earful,” according to witnesses, expressing His divine indignation over the proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2006, and condemned the Republican Party to eternal torment in Hell, for they did wilfully propose two percent less than His preferred level of federal spending on social programs.

Rather than deliver this condemnation in Person, however, our Lord chose to speak through His earthly mouthpiece, the Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches USA. Rev. Edgar and three other “religious leaders” had just held a joint press conference in the Mansfield Room, where they did inform the city and the globe and all men of good will that the Lord thy God doth demand $2.544 trillion in F.Y. 2006 outlays, not $2.539 trillion.
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