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Rise of the Christian left: Why the religious right’s moment may be ending (Salon)
Salon ^ | 7/21/14

Posted on 07/21/2014 4:34:55 PM PDT by Faith Presses On

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To: cartoonistx
Well, they may be leftists but they sure "ain’t" Christians.
21 posted on 07/21/2014 5:21:37 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: Faith Presses On

Like Jesus described....sheep on the right and goats on the left.
He told us all about this.


22 posted on 07/21/2014 5:25:44 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Faith Presses On

The “religious right” but the “Christian left”. The commie piggies have to phrase it that way because they turned the term, “religious right” into a slur. The “religious left” would also be a slur. God will not be mocked. Communists are not Christians. Never have been, never will be. The hypocrite left would have been a lot more appropriate.


23 posted on 07/21/2014 5:29:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Nope, not going to happen. To give up is to be a coward.


24 posted on 07/21/2014 5:34:40 PM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Faith Presses On

I understand that. I’ve posted 23,246 threads and I don’t think I’ve ever left off an author’s name if one was given. It’s common courtesy. Thanks.


25 posted on 07/21/2014 5:35:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Faith Presses On
There is no such thing as the Christian Left since Leftism is atheistic, anti-God and antithetical to basic Christian doctrine. Those on the Left who claim Christ are as obedient to Him as they are to any moral principle, which means not at all.

"For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." - Matthew 24:5

Anyone who endorses Socialism (theft), abortion (murder), radical environmentalism (idolatry) and homosexuality (an abomination before God) is not a Christian. They are like their father Satan. Christ condemns them as Almighty God who only speaks truth:

"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." - John 8:44

The Left has infiltrated the mainline Protestant churches in America as well as the Catholic Church. The late Bible teacher and pastor Dr. J. Vernon McGee predicted that eventually the believing Church in America would have to go underground due to persecution. His prediction of who those persecutors would be? The mainline Protestant churches themselves. They will receive their matching orders from their Satanic masters to seek and destroy all those who love Christ.

"Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service." - John 16:2

When this happens, we cannot be lead as lambs to the slaughter. Christ also told us:

"He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." - Luke 22:36

Give the devil and his mainline evildoers no quarter. Christ says to buy a sword. He means for us to use it.

26 posted on 07/21/2014 5:53:06 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: Faith Presses On
The Religious Left rises every few years. in the MSM, at least. The rise is enabled by great quantities of hot air and low density ink. It dissipates fairly quickly. Every time. There is no actually religious Left. There are leftists who claim religion but but it is "religion" that is essentially atheist or situational which is not Religion. It is excuse making and not much more.
27 posted on 07/21/2014 6:14:02 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Olog-hai
Henri de Saint-Simon... Robert Owen...

Those guys came along very late in the development of socialism - though we do have Owen to thank for the name. The nineteenth century was a time when ancient Christian doctrines were secularized into modern atheistic socialism. But socialism is as old as Christianity. Look up the Joachimites, the Adamites, the Brethren of the Free Spirit, the Taborites, the Anabaptists, the Diggers, the Ranters, and other communist heretical Christian sects almost without number. And of course let's not forget the monasteries, most of which were little micro-communist enclaves.

28 posted on 07/21/2014 6:24:12 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: SeeSharp

Ultimately, “socialism” comes from Greek philosophy, which has always tried to insert itself into Christianity, so Christianity itself is not the source and the notion actually predates it.


29 posted on 07/21/2014 6:30:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Ultimately, “socialism” comes from Greek philosophy

Granted. But nobody today is trying to instantiate the reign of the philosopher kings. Modern socialists are indeed trying to instantiate heaven on Earth though. Their ideologies are always eschatological in nature. They believe in a historical beginning state, then a struggle, and ultimately an ideal end state. There is nothing Greek about that. That's secularized millennialism.

30 posted on 07/21/2014 6:41:45 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Faith Presses On

The religious left is the church of Nicolae Carpathia. Phony churches. SEIU fakin’ it.


31 posted on 07/21/2014 6:44:45 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Faith Presses On

Anything from SALON can be discounted to rubbish pretty much immediately.


32 posted on 07/21/2014 6:48:38 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: cartoonistx

they worship the creature, rather than the creator


33 posted on 07/21/2014 8:31:18 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Faith Presses On
...the upcoming years could be the Christian left’s big moment. Which isn’t to say the United States has no Christian left history — with Civil Rights and the heyday of Catholic labor in our past, there is healthy precedent — but for the millennial growing up in the age of Jesus Camp and ‘Teach the Controversy’, Christian political activity has almost always veered rightward.

PFL

34 posted on 07/21/2014 9:30:22 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy

posting for later
Priests for Life
Paid Family Leave

Which is it?

LOL!


35 posted on 07/21/2014 9:37:12 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Biggirl

Nope, not going to happen. To give up is to be a coward.

...I do believe the poster was exhibiting sarcasm...


36 posted on 07/22/2014 8:13:37 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: Dr. Thorne

Give the devil and his mainline evildoers no quarter. Christ says to buy a sword. He means for us to use it.

...so, you’re going to go about running swords through he midsections of people as they come out of church...

...sounds like a plan, I guess...


37 posted on 07/22/2014 8:18:21 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: IrishBrigade

No, silly. We are not going like lambs to the slaughter. Christ did so because He came specifically to give His life as a ransom for many. I believe He wants us to resist and, if necessary, to fight. That’s when we will use our swords (weaponry) to defend ourselves.


38 posted on 07/22/2014 10:22:49 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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