Stephen Foster is a freelance writer from Huntsville and Executive Director of interactive content with Whattheyshouldsay.org, a non-profit public policy education and messaging platform.

Since my interpretation of the Bible has a pessimistic view of the nature of mankind and of the fate of the world prior to the end of time, I have a pessimistic and cynical view of the nature of mankind and of the fate of the world prior to the end of time.

I have a perspective, or an outlook, or an interpretation of Scripture in which the good guys are invariably and inevitably persecuted for the sake righteousness by those who are not good, but who purport to be good ("having a form of godliness...," so to speak).

My personal view of things has theocratic types in America taking control of the levers of civil power and authority in a backlash against their perception of a steep and perpetual decline of moral and religious values in our purportedly pluralistic society; and then has these theocratic types impose their (personal) sectarian and religious beliefs and interpretations on the society as a whole; supposedly for the good of us all. In which case, the religious liberties of all is threatened and will be subsequently eradicated, even here in the greatest bastion of freedom and liberty in the history of the world--the United States of America.

I see my particular interpretation of things being played out nowadays. It is now the height (or perhaps depth) of hypocrisy for Christian conservatives to claim traditional or family values as that which individually and collectively motivates them--or as that which informs their participation in the public arena of ideas--when they are openly supporting a person who has been credibly accused of being, or more accurately of having been, a pedophile; and someone who has previously been removed from statewide office for failing to perform sworn duties to uphold duly enacted law in the state that he is now running to represent in the world's most prestigious deliberative and representative institution, the United States Senate.

If nothing else, Roy Moore is a theocratic type of politician who would clearly have preferred to impose his Biblical view of things on the citizens of Alabama--and would now like to do so on the citizens of the United States. From my personal perspective this would be bad under normal circumstances; but this is happening under circumstances in which he has been credibly accused by more than one individual of having been a person who, as an adult, was attracted to children; which is the textbook (or dictionary) definition of a pedophile.

It is one thing to disbelieve his accusers and to consider them all to be politically motivated slanderers. This categorization of Moore's accusers would seem problematic from one perspective, because one or more of them have said that they voted for Donald Trump for President. But be that as it may, it is conceivable, if not understandable, that some people do not believe that any of Moore's accusers, including the Trump voters, are telling the truth at all.

For his part, Moore is now completely denying the truthfulness of all of these accusations; and has claimed that he doesn't know--and didn't know--any of these women now; and claiming that he didn't know any of them as minors (or children), when he is accused of having interacted with them. Therefore he is calling all of these women liars.

So it is one thing to disbelieve them all, and to consider them all to be politically motivated liars and slanderers; but it is another thing altogether to actually believe them to be credible; and therefore to believe that it is entirely possible that Moore, who claims to have always gotten parental permission to date whomever he dated back then, is (or was) actually a pedophile--and yet vote for him to be the next U.S. Senator from Alabama.

It is the height and/or depth of hypocrisy to indeed believe that Moore was a pedophile, and therefore now a liar, and still vote for him; and do so on the grounds that he represents your Christian values more that his opponent does (read that again); who also claims Christianity as his faith, but is a Democrat who disagrees with your public policy approaches to some issues; and who has otherwise been a model citizen.

If you are such a person, your political affiliation as a Republican is really your religion. If you are such a person, you make Christianity look bad; but probably do not care--because your actual religion is so-called conservative Republicanism.