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Christian Carnival 43 is up. I haven't had a chance to read any of the posts yet, but here are a few that caught my eye. Be sure to check out the whole list.

Rodney of The Journey shares with us his thoughts about Christian Bloggers and the difference between blogging about faith issues, and blogging about the perspective our faith gives us.

In his post "Blame the Republicans? No, This Time It's the Christians" Nick Queen of Patriot Paradox, nice guy and founder of the Christian Carnival, shows us how Christians are now the reviled enemy of the Left because we were decisive in reelecting No. 43.

Diane over at Crossroads (and fellow Glendale Presbyterian Church member) writes about mindless Christian support of Bush and the neo-cons in her post "Day Before-Last Thoughts".

Having names that are very similar also lent itself to similar post material as Dick Cleary of Viewpoint discusses how the Left is now scared to death of "Those Horrid Christians", not unlike Nick Queen did previously.

Phil of Another Man's Meat writes about the sincerity of the Democrats call to recapture "religious language" in "In Order to Be Sincere, You Must First Really Be Sincere". In the "aftermath" of the election Democratic strategists are saying that they need to develop a strategy to recapture the language of religion in order to get votes. It's a strategy that says, "capture the language and you'll capture the ideas and the voters." It's a strategy that Phil maintains will not work because "in order to be sincere you must first really be sincere."

In "Christians and Blue Counties", Jeremy Pierce, a.k.a. Parableman thoughtfully examines regional demographics in light of the election, and rightfully claims that Christians in "red" states and "red" counties might do well to move to heavily "blue" parts of the country, so their good influence could be used to bring the gospel to those places.

At Weapons of Mass Distraction, Derek examines in "The Bottom Line" that Democrats don't understand why they've lost Middle America, because to the liberal mind, any worldview built on a foundation of faith in a transcendant God is utterly irrational. Therefore they can't believe anyone actually lives that way, and why they feel justified in saying so in such condescending terms.

In his post "Further rumination on sola Scriptura", Scott, The Crusty Curmudgeon, follows up on some of the comments he received by a Catholic blogger on his last Carnival entry on the authority and sufficiency of Scripture.