davidinalameda
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Thu Feb-10-05 03:41 PM
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Who's Who on the Religious Left |
Fridays Child
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Thu Feb-10-05 03:45 PM
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1. All good people but we need a major televangelist... |
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...if we are ever to take back Christianity. It's all about the marketing, unfortunately.
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Thu Feb-10-05 03:49 PM
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3. If only people really followed Jesus |
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they'd all be liberals. Funny how "they" focus on the negatives in the bible. http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues/477698
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Thu Feb-10-05 03:58 PM
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4. Actually, the Neo-fundie Right's beliefs are downright Levitican. |
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Jesus is just a prop for them.
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Donald Ian Rankin
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Fri Feb-11-05 01:02 PM
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10. I'd say Paulist, not Levitican |
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I think St Paul would definately be a member of the religious right today, (as would virtually everyone else who live before about 1850).
Jesus as Christians envisage him would almost certainly be left-wing (I don't see how one can claim to be in favour of lovingthy neighbour as thyself and not be), but relatively little of even the new testament is accounts of his teachings, rather than those of his followers.
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Thu Feb-10-05 10:17 PM
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We'd need a mega-church, TV spots, books, and whatnot to counter the Evangelicals. I doubt it would happen. Christian media seems controled by them too.
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Thu Feb-10-05 03:46 PM
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2. Didn't see Barry Lynn on there |
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Head of Americans United and a United Church of Christ Minister!!!
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davidinalameda
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Thu Feb-10-05 04:02 PM
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5. I was a bit surprised at how short the list was myself |
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I would love to see a list put together like the one recently in Time
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Thu Feb-10-05 05:28 PM
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I'm baffled that more Christians aren't liberal. There is nothing in the gospels that can remotely be interpreted to mean, "piss on the poor and bomb brown people."
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Thu Feb-10-05 05:22 PM
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6. You're right: Americans United for Separation of Church & State |
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is a really cool organization. I don't know why he wasn't on there.
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Thu Feb-10-05 06:39 PM
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8. A very incomplete list. |
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What does it take to get our progressive religious leaders more media attention and at the least posted on this list.
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