[NYer]

Jim Wallis is the founder of Sojourners.

[NYer]

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[xcamel]

"When good negotiates with evil, evil always wins"

[Vision]

Yea, we're too intelligent and modern for God. \rolling eyes

[muawiyah]

This Sojourners crowd aren't Christians anyway.

[WKB]

Obviously he hasn't read the end of The Book Ping

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I saw it was in Time, and said why bother reading this drivel?

[Alia]

Jim Wallis is casting a "spell". He thinks by asserting his "word" "The monologue of the Religious Right is over" that this is true. He does this by use of the word "monologue", as tho Christians left and right haven't been "debating and brawling" for thousands of years.

Oh such the King, Wallis. Casting himself upon the Cross, as tho he were Christ.

[Lakeshark]

From the article: Even more amazing, the Left is starting to get it.

I'm sorry, the only thing the left "gets" is how to change its language in order to fool faithful Christians of all stripes.

Jim Wallis is a fraud of incomprehensible proportions.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

"Sojourners" is the same commie group that protested the Viet Nam war, which led to the deaths of millions of innocents.

It is the same group that offered a "third alternative" to war with Iraq. The alternative? Appeasement.

This is a group of Leftists cloaked in quasi-religious garb.

Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing. If you doubt me, look at the European countries that have abandoned their religious heritage and look at the mess they're in.

[kaotic133]

Wow, I agree that religious conservatism is in decline but the socialist alternative proposed is even more terrifying.

Of course, in a perfect world we could all be compassionate and accepting like Jesus, or we could all be equals in a utopian fantasy-land, but the reality is we need answers that are not based on rigidly held ideas of "absolute truth." Politicians claiming to hold that "absolute truth" (be it religious, socialist, etc) are really nothing by "absolute tyrants and liars."

[kittymyrib]

The Leftist Wallis sees a bright future for "religion" that believes more in government than in God. He need only look to Europe to see what happens to Christianity when it abandons the Bible and trusts in politics. Jesus wisely counsels His followers to be "in the world, but not of the world."

[dirtboy]

Evangelicals — especially the new generation of pastors and young people — are deserting the Religious Right in droves.

I see a lot of Rudy boosters also saying that social conservatives should be shunned. Let's see what kind of people are in agreement with them.

The evangelical social agenda is now much broader and deeper, engaging issues like poverty and economic justice, global warming, HIV/AIDS, sex trafficking, genocide in Darfur and the ethics of the war in Iraq. Catholics are returning to their social teaching; mainline Protestants are asserting their faith more aggressively; a new generation of young black and Latino pastors are putting the focus on social justice; a Jewish renewal movement and more moderate Islam are also growing; and a whole new denomination has emerged, which might be called the "spiritual but not religious."

Man, that sounds like hard-core liberalism to me. Nice company you're keeping, anti-socon Rudy boosters. Be careful what you ask for - you just might get it.

[madprof98]

I'd love to say this is just so much hot air and media hype. But, actually, I think he's onto something. Just check out the effusive praise on this forum for Rudy Giuliani. Much of it is motivated by a real disgust for social conservatism--i.e., the much-hated Religious Right. If the most conservative forum on the Internet is awash with people who hate religious conservatives, then something is up. I don't know if the Soros-inspired coalition of secularists and religious leftists has won, but I'd say it is definitely winning over popular opinion.

[unsycophant]

Accurate headline, followed by inaccurate analysis with commentary advocating lefty religious orgs directing government.

[alicewonders]

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.

[ShawTaylor]

"The Religious Right's Era Is Over "

With the anti-Christ RATS majority of just ONE in the US Senate, the religious Right's era is over?
This from the same loony left MSM who continued to insist that Republicans had "no mandate" even after President Bush had won by over 3 million, and republicans had a majority of over 10 in the US Senate?
Hey Jim Wallis, get back to me wen you wake up from dreamland.

[Cedric]

Love it when the Left trots out non-Christians to define Christian doctrine, then condemn Christians for not following it.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

The Religous Right's Era is Over

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"

[Sherman Logan]

Politics is failing to resolve the big moral issues of our time, or even to seriously address them.

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.

[JCEccles]

Kumbaya.