Posted on 02/17/2007 6:23:04 AM PST by NYer
Accurate headline, followed by inaccurate analysis with commentary advocating lefty religious orgs directing government.
I think the left keeps misreading this last election. They interpreted it as a slam against conservatism - but from what I've read - it is a historic fact that the party in power usually loses seats in mid-term elections such as those we just had.
I was reading where Ann Coulter said somewhere that actually, the Republicans lost less seats than could be expected by past election performances. So, it really wasn't quite the mandate the left likes to claim.
Death of the religious right? Conservatism? I don't think so - I think we're as fired up as we've been in a long time.
Love it when the Left trots out non-Christians to define Christian doctrine, then condemn Christians for not following it.
And the era of Christ is well on it's way.
The era of Christ will make Jim Wallis scream for the era of the "Religous Right"
I think I heard this illustration on the radio a long time ago...Chuck Swindoll...it says it all
Mr. Wallis, of course, gets to decide which are the big moral issues of our time. His list includes: poverty and economic justice, global warming, HIV/AIDS, sex trafficking, genocide in Darfur and the ethics of the war in Iraq.
Those for whom moral issues include aggressive normalization of perversion, destruction of the institution of marriage, killing of unborn and partially born children, pornification of our popular culture, etc. are just wrong, not to mention evil.
religion has too often been used as a wedge to divide people, rather than as a bridge to bring us together on those most critical questions.
If somebody agrees with Mr. Wallis, they're standing on a bridge together. If someone disagrees, the jerk introduced a wedge into the discussion.
We can indeed all get along. Just agree with Mr. Wallis and all our problems will disappear.
Our problem is we don't have a perfect candidate to run.
Not. One.
That being said, people like Jim Wallis are trying their best to tear down religious conservatives and demoralize them. I see a lot of evangelical pastors lining up to listen to this crap.........and there are a fair amount of them that are quite gullible when it comes to the lefts' siren songs.
Kumbaya.
What should our ideas be based in? Loosely held opinion? Happenstance? The fad of the day? Luck of the draw?
I think our understanding of truth is a pretty good way to form our judgments.
He really hit it out of the ball park with that one.
OOPS... I guess he forgot to say that!
I agree!
The msm seems to be doing everything it can to push us left. I would think that means we should run as hard and fast as we can to the right.
Theyve never been our friends before, why should we trust them now?
Here's an interesting article which gives a good perspective on Wallis and others preaching this same message.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2007/01/14/why_the_christian_left_is_not
I'm still proud to call myself conservative. No one will shame me into voting 'centrist/moderate/wishy washy/liberal'.
I quit time more than 20 years ago when they ran their suicide cover dedicated to a ban on gun ownership.
Nah. I am a proud member of the so-called "religious right". What is key in this Wallis fellow's screed is "most of the people I talk to". Well, just imagine who shows up for this guy. This is akin to "How did Reagan win, nobody I know voted for him" coming out of the upper west side salons.
Yet, we here respond to it as if it was fact, not propaganda. Aside from the little slivers of blue surrounding the large metro areas which themselves surround most of the re-education camps that used to be our great universities, this is a Red Nation. Sooner than later we'll have had enough.
As to "evangelicals" on this site supporting Rudy: I suspect that many, like myself, do not support him at this point, but will definitely vote for him if he is the nominee against any democrat. This past weeks congressional treasons ought to tell us all we need to know about "teaching the rino's a lesson".
Because weak or non Christians do read it, and this kind of trash needs to be refuted.
Your first thoughts were correct, it is media-hype, it has 'Rudy' written all over it.
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