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Religious zealots, arranged right to left
LA Times ^ | 12-11-05 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 12/11/2005 5:15:43 AM PST by SJackson

Liberals who want you to be liberal are moral, but Christians who want you to be Christian are bigots.

AMERICANS CONSTANTLY hear and read about the dangers emanating from the religious right. But what about the dangers from the religious left? Ever hear about those dangers? In fact, do you ever hear about a religious left at all?

Probably not. My Google search of "religious right" yielded 3,890,000 items. A search of "religious left" yielded 276,000. And that search included right-wing websites. My quick survey of a "mainstream," i.e. liberal, news medium revealed an even more lopsided result: New York Times' articles since 1981 mentioned the "religious right" 1,689 times and gave only 29 mentions to the "religious left."

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As far as the news media are concerned, there is no religious left, only the religious right and "mainstream" denominations — and, of course, the religious right is regularly described as bigoted, narrow-minded and intolerant, not to mention a threat to the separation of church and state.

Yet, within Christianity and Judaism, the left is very much alive, and in Judaism it is dominant. This leftism was made apparent last month in Houston at the biennial convention of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest of Judaism's denominations.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: christianity; hypocrisy; judaism; mediabias; reformjudaism; religion; religiousleft; religiousright; tolerance
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To: SJackson

There never seems to be any mention of the absurd religious left. Rev Sloan Coffin etc always get a free pass
while the left fulminates about theocracy


21 posted on 12/12/2005 1:18:58 AM PST by Marano NYC
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To: SJackson
As far as the news media are concerned, there is no religious left

I agree.
And I would much rather be aligned with the "religious right" than the godless left.

22 posted on 12/12/2005 1:27:19 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: raynearhood
Howard Dean recently said that Democrats care if children go to bed hungry at night and Republicans don't."

That scumbag from Illinois, Obama, is saying the same thing.

23 posted on 12/12/2005 1:29:16 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: SJackson

Leftism is a blind acceptance of a utopian doctrine, just like religion.


24 posted on 12/15/2005 12:55:04 AM PST by sagar
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