Posted on 02/17/2007 6:23:04 AM PST by NYer
Good observations. Thanks for the post and ping!
Everyone is religious. Now if he had said the "Christian Left" that would have been an oxymoron.
Oh...I understand. We can understand salvation, the purpose of man and our relationship with our Creator from college professors, Katie Couric and Britney Spears.
I like your analogy.
What I always told my kids - If you are standing on a table and your friend is on the floor - it's easier for him to pull you down than it is for you to pull him up. So choose your friends carefully.
How odd that that wasn't the case when the Democrats were espousing them. In fact, the Clintons' leadership in the push for abortion and gay rights was routinely cited as an example of the depravity and the decadence into which they were leading this country. And if you think the Guiliani boosters here are not enthusiastic about throwing the social conservatives to the sharks, then you haven't been following the numerous threads on which they post here.
President of the SDS while in college. Activist for "SOCIAL JUSTICE".
His other titles should be USEFUL IDIOT, COMMUNIST, STUPID TOOL.
This makes as much sense as when after the 2004 elections, there were those on FR claiming the Democrat party was dead.
He must be joking. No, lying, actually.
Just another liberal "Christian"
He actually got this right. The Left are not Christians they are New Age narcissists--The "God is me" crowd. Old dregs in new bottles.
They have lost the battle for the established churches, as the devout have voted with their feet. Wallis's own UCC no longer is willing to declare Jesus Christ as God incarnate. They will hollow out the husks of the moribund Mainline and set up shop as UN-type NGO's instead.
"Spiritual but not religious." Exactly. "Religious" implies the faith that there is a God worth worshipping somewhere.
Since the days of Wendell Willkie, the moderates and liberals in GOP ranks have been trying to sell their candidates as the lesser of two evils. RINOs, and their predecessors, the Rockefeller Republicans and the "me too" crowd have merely served as a junior partner for the New Deal/Great Society, the tax collector who did not dispute the rising bills for the welfare state, but who merely wanted to fund the bill through taxes and not borrowings from the Fed or private investors. The greatest triumphs the GOP has achieved were in 1980, 1984, and 1994 when the party had a clearly conservative message.
America does not need a Rudy McRomney. The borders would remain porous, we would continue waging a no win war in Iraq and Afghanistan, social programs would continue to expand, and new mandates would continue to be imposed. Would Rudy McRomney be better than Hillary or Obama? Maybe, if you think slow death via cancer is better than a massive heart attack.
The only cure for America's political problems is to return to the philosophy of our Founders - limited government, personal and financial liberty, and strong national defense. There is no substitute for victory.
And that is the sales pitch from the Rudy boosters this year. The problem is, they are simultaneously closing the gap between the two evils.
Nah I mean successful people of significant talents other than manipulation LOL Unfortunately its all subjective and the success we see is the success they want us to see :(
I would like to hear more from the many corporate Ph.D.s and successful MBAs who have constructive answers about society - people who work for a living as leaders in their fields. People who create jobs and fuel investment. All we ever get is people filled with anger at financial success, or moral deprevation. People who have few answers aside from condemnation for their enemies.
From my experiences working with such people, with all due respect, that is the last thing we need. I'd rather hear from self-made businessmen who learned sweat lessons than who got received a brainful of academic business views and then inflicted them on their respective organizations.
What? The mooselimb terrorists have stopped packing their C-4 belts with ball bearing and are now using M&M's? Sure sign of moderation.
Apostates have been trying for 2000 years to take Christ out of Christianity. My bet is on God.
It's just a repackaged "relativity" argument
From Wikipedia: Raised in a traditional evangelical (Plymouth Brethren) family [4], as a young man Wallis became active in the civil rights movement. He graduated from Michigan State University, where he was President of Students for a Democratic Society and then went on to attend Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois where he joined with other young seminarians in establishing the community that eventually became Sojourners.
His books include God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (2004), Faith Works: How Faith Based Organizations Are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America (2000), and The Soul of Politics: Beyond "Religious Right" and "Secular Left" (1995).
His writings are regularly published as op-eds in major media outlets, and he teaches a course in religion and politics at Harvard University. He is also the convener of Call to Renewal, an interfaith effort to end poverty.
In discussing the 2004 American presidential elections, Wallis said "Jesus didn’t speak at all about homosexuality. There are about 12 verses in the Bible that touch on that question ... [t]here are thousands of verses on poverty. I don’t hear a lot of that conversation." [2]
Jim was invited by Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) to give the Democrats' weekly radio address on Saturday, December 2, 2006. He spoke about the importance of moral leadership in Washington, and touched on a variety of social concerns.
ping for later
.....so God has spoken and jim is informing the masses in this book?
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