Prison Fellowship Founder Chuck Colson seems ready to pass on having tea with the tea partiers.

Writing in Christianity Today, he said:

“The tea party movement may have a lot of traction in America today, but it makes no attempt to present a governing philosophy. It simply seeks an outlet — an understandable one — for the brooding frustrations of many Americans. But anti-government attitudes are not the substitute for good government.”

As Tea Party members and other grass-roots groups prepare to head to Washington on Tax Day, Colson said “a massive wave of anti-government sentiment” should “deeply trouble” Christians.

“We should be instructing people enraged at the excesses of Washington and the growing ethical malaise in the Capitol to focus their rage at fixing government, not throwing the baby out with the bath water. We Christians are to be the best citizens, praying for our leaders and holding them in high regard, even as we push for the reforms desperately needed to keep representative government flourishing.”