Groups > Stronger Together - Finding Common Ground

Here's an interesting article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/magazine/28Evangelicals-t.html?em&ex=1193716800&en=5b6318ccb514f1c9&ei=5087%0A

It addresses (among other things) something that I always saw as a contradiction - how the religious right seemed so willing to go to war. It quotes a religious leader, speaking of the Bush administration, as follows: "The quickness to arms, the quickness to invade, I think that caused a kind of desertion of what has been known as the Christian right."

So people who identify as conservative Christians were not, in fact, so eager to go to war, and Bush has lost quite a bit of support there because if the war - at least according to this article.

Conservative Christians are also taking up global warming and environmentalism as causes. People on the left and right finding common ground again.

If there is one thing I like, it is stereotypes falling apart.

Here's an interesting article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/magazine/28Evangelicals-t.html?em&ex=1193716800&en=5b6318ccb514f1c9&ei=5087%0A

It addresses (among other things) something that I always saw as a contradiction - how the religious right seemed so willing to go to war. It quotes a religious leader, speaking of the Bush administration, as follows: "The quickness to arms, the quickness to invade, I think that caused a kind of desertion of what has been known as the Christian right."

So people who identify as conservative Christians were not, in fact, so eager to go to war, and Bush has lost quite a bit of support there because if the war - at least according to this article.

Conservative Christians are also taking up global warming and environmentalism as causes. People on the left and right finding common ground again.

If there is one thing I like, it is stereotypes falling apart.

When the leadership of a church strays to far from reality then people quit going, move to another church, or in set communities, fire them. <snip>

I'm catholic, and whatever the Vatican says, things aren't necessarily that way in my parish. The people who attend my church are not automatons following precisely the strict policies of Rome. Our priests are some of the best diplomats I've ever known. It's so funny to watch their facial expressions when they deliver an answer to certain questions. They have learned to explain God's plan for us using words that don't contradict Rome, but rather allow a diverse flock to see God in a way that fits their lives.

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