Life Lessons from Oscar Romero

Wikipedia: Outside of Catholicism, [Oscar] Romero is honored by other religious denominations of Christendom, including the Church of England through the Calendar in Common Worship. He is one of the ten 20th century martyrs who are depicted in statues above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey in London.[4] In 2008, he was chosen as one of the 15 Champions of World Democracy by the Europe-based magazine A Different View.[5]

A piece in the Kansas City Star notes that, “Romero, murdered 30 years ago this month, is being considered for sainthood in Rome and is indisputably a central figure in the history of the late Cold War era. But he is just one of many historical figures who no longer make the cut in the Texas Board of Education’s revised curriculum standards.”

Ironically, the removal of Romero from the proposed curriculum came at the hands of Christian conservatives, which brings me around to one of my longstanding questions — when did we allow our politics to trump our Christianity? Why does it seem that our Christianity informs our personally held viewpoints less than we allow our personally held viewpoints to define what it means to be “Christian”?