Why is it so hard for liberals to talk about religion?
In the political chat rooms where I hang out, most of the people seem to HATE religion and hate anyone that follows a religion. Where is our tolerance?
I listen to Air America Radio a lot, and more to Head On Radio, where the hosts and the chatters make fun of people who believe in “the invisible”.
The only show on Air America where it is OK to have faith in God or to practice any religion is State of Belief, and it is only on for one hour a week.
I think that a lot of the fundamentalists have it wrong when they judge gays or women that had an abortion, but I think liberals get it wrong too when they judge anyone with a religion as being fooled or misguided. Faith is important and it is way older than than the republican party or the megachurches or Pat Robertson.
Maybe it is time to stop judging at all?
October 12, 2006 at 11:06 am
Maybe you should understand what it means to not judge and read all the Bible verses that teach about morality
October 12, 2006 at 11:47 am
Which verses do you mean?
October 12, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Freckles, you may be often mistaking people “pushing back” against a Christian Protestant near-theocracy with hating religion.
I really, deeply resent the lie that our laws are based on JudeoChristian beliefs and practices. they aren’t. I really, deeply resent the lie that my moral values are in any sense based on anything in the Judeo-Christian tradition. They aren’t.
I sense in most American Christians a decline in their motivation to protect the rights of people not like them, so I wonder why I should have a positive attitude to them. Since the time of the Founding Fathers church groups have worked hard to erode the separation of church and state.
Whenever people like Jefferson and Madison tried to patiently explain to them that today’s top dog religion might be tomorrow’s underdog religion, and they should make laws they’d welcome as a MINORITY of faith, they were accused of hating religion (usually of hating Christianity).
Basically, I just think you’re not necessarily asking YOURSELF how much, if at all, you’re trying to grasp other people’s positions and viewpoints.
October 12, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Your Mom, Jesus said “Judge not, lest ye be judged”
Where’s the wiggle room there?
October 22, 2006 at 4:57 pm
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October 28, 2006 at 5:13 pm
I also listen to Air America a lot; I have been unemployed for a few months and listen while I job hunt online. Sam Seder and Jerry Springer are deeply religious. Al Franken was raised religious and gave it up when he married a woman of a different religion. I think that I share a similar background with many of the AA hosts; we were raised to believe that religion is quite personal and clearly does not belong in public, espcially in government. There is a major misconception on the right that they have pushed hard on the middle that those who are not Christian are anti-Christian and that those who do not openly discuss their faith are anit-religion.