When politics mixes with religion

Reading this entry in Andrew Sullivan's blog set me off on this rant.  

Picture a room full of people who are so proud of their goodness and righteousness that they actually believe they deserve all the good things in life their god  has blessed them to have. They believe that if others do not have these things then there simply must be something wrong with them: they are some combination of lazy, shiftless, immoral, ignorant, stupid, and they feel the world owes them a living. Yes, they say, God IS good and merciful, but you have only your own selves to blame for your problems. Shame on you.  You simply don't deserve to live as we do.

These people may be religious but they are anything but spiritual. Whatever happened to standing in awe before the face of God?  God is no mystery to these folks.  They have put him in a little box and made him their own.