[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.

[hinckley buzzard]

a whole new denomination has emerged, which might be called the "spiritual but not religious."

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.

[TommyDale]

[okie01]

...a new generation of young black and Latino pastors are putting the focus on social justice...

As if slaughtering unborn babies was a form of "social justice".