Posted on 04/30/2017 4:18:16 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Interesting argument. Ping.
I think he is wrong as fast as Islam is growing in the left.
There will always be fake religious/religious left around.
Gotta fill the void with something if you dont have God. Its either some kind of ism or some false religion.
There will be no Christian Left. The Democrat Chairman says there’s “no place in the party” for pro-lifers. That’s a rather large chunk of the Christians gone right there.
It’s just a matter of time until they say there is no place for Christians in their party.
There is no such thing as a religious left. Either you believe in God or you don’t.
[There is no such thing as a religious left. Either you believe in God or you don’t.]
Sheep and the goats. There will be no in between.
Thanks for the ping. Yes, this is an interesting argument. It does seem that the liberal churches are declining in membership.
Weak-kneed Christian churches ought to quit christening ceremonies for the secular, refuse marriage in the church to those who do not belong to the church, and cease the burials of those who do not confess faith in Jesus.
Parents and grandparents who have non-religious children and grandchildren should not expect the church to perform the rites of the church for those who have no concept of the Christian life.
LOL. That was exactly my thought too - an oxymoron. Then again, there’s a few Christian denominations that promote false doctrines. I don’t really see the point of making some sacrifices and being found lukewarm on Judgment Day.
I disagree. I think that Christianity easily lends itself to an emphasis on fighting oppression which can become a drive that excludes other considerations (including logic).
It doesn’t surprise me that Rod Dreher imagines that “soon” all religious people will be like him - or like he would like to perceive himself, but the 2,000-year history of Christianity is one in which similar errors - hyper-focusing on one aspect to the exclusion of others - arise again and again.
“In part, the liberal mass migration away from religion was a reaction to the rise of the Christian right.”
NICE TRY!!!
The ‘Christian right’ only got started as a REACTION to the Left basically stealing their children though schools, TV, etc. The last thing that people of faith wanted to do was get involved in the dirty world of politics - but they correctly felt that they had no choice.
So it was the OTHER WAY - the Left went after our children, and therefore we did what we could to protect them (although, sadly, not well enough in most cases).
Don’t forget, in 2012 the inclusion of God in the democrat party platform was booed.
There is nothing new under the sun. —Ecclesiastes
Of course there is and always will be a religious left. Thousands of years ago the Israelite battled both physically and spiritually against the Canaanites who sacrificed their children to Moloch. Abortion has religious roots.
The current environmental movement elevates the creation above the creature and flatly denies that God commanded man (both male and female) to subdue the earth. As soon as the AGW are faced with the fact that the sun has more to do with climate variation than CO2, I expect them to start worshiping the sun god. It’s what they do.
Islam is not a religion. It is the world’s largest cult.
I think he is wrong as fast as Islam is growing in the left.
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Orthodox Islam is emphatically not Leftist though (at least not in any meaningful secular sense). The U.S.S.R. found out the hard way that Islam might adopt SOME of the collectivist policies of socialism, but the instant you brought the purely materialistic indoctrination up as justification for a socialist society...well...that just meant its time to dust off the ol’ AK-47 and do a little jihad.
Islam is not a religion. It is the world’s largest cult.
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Way too dismissive. You may hate Islam, but it is far more influential in the world than the Branch Davidians.
Hmmm.
“There will always be fake religious/religious left around.
Gotta fill the void with something if you dont have God. Its either some kind of ism or some false religion.”
i believe that climate change has become the acceptable, promoted and taught secular substitute for traditional religious beliefs and practices.
You are probably right.
But to me it sure seems more cult than religion.
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