From a reader:

Jonah, “Underwhelmed” is exactly right. Also, I consider myself an Evangelical Christian and most of the time I am embarrassed to be considered a follower of Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson. Really, I think most people, even most Christians, are relieved to hear the White House espousing the same sentiments! Overall, this seems like a very personal, spiritual struggle for Kuo – mixing politics and spirituality may not work for him. Some Christians have the spiritual freedom to eat pork, some do not, some can drink wine, some can not. Apparently, some can be active politically and some can’t. Kuo can’t and that’s OK. But it doesn’t mean that no Christian ever should involve themselves in the political process. Jesus was hardly apolitical. He was, by no accident, the center of political controversy and scandal. My only reason to doubt Kuo’s claim that the timing of his book is not a political move, occured in the very last part of his interview. He actually calls for Christians to observe a political “fast”. Three weeks before the elections, he asks Christians to remove themselves from the political process and reflect. Come ON! Do Christians need to think more carefully about where they are putting their money and electoral power? Yes, of course. Do we need to repent for our lack of concern for the needy, the lost, the weak and sick? Until we are in heaven and can love perfectly. But to throw in the towel and give up our right to vote seems to run a pretty close second to “crazy”. Kuo offers some very valuable spiritual messages for Christians. Perhaps the only way he could get anyone to read his rebuke was to attach it to a controversial political subject. And now he is right back where he started, mixing politics and God. I suspect the very actions he took to relieve himself of the guilt will only make him feel more angst in the future. Oh, the desperation of the human condition!