"But when they said, 'Give us a king to lead us,' this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. And the Lord told him: 'Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejectd me as their king.'" (I Samuel 8:6-7). The kingdom of God can have only one king. His name is not Saul or David or George. The first Christians referred to Jesus as "King of kings and Lord of Lords." Christians can have only one king. His name is Jesus. The politics of Jesus can be summed up in one phrase, "Seek first the kingdom of God." What does that mean? I believe it means that we pledge our allegiance to the kingdom of God rather than to a flag or a nation or a president or a party. One of the problems with the politics of the "Christian Right" is that it values the politics of King George over the politics of King Jesus. -- Bob