Posted on 08/04/2023 11:25:54 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Editor's note: Terry Mattingly, who is off this week, wrote this column in 1998. Nearly a quarter-century later, he considers this one of the most important columns he has ever written:
Back in the 1980s, I began to experience deja vu while covering event after event on the religion beat in Charlotte, Denver and then at the national level.
I kept seeing a fascinating cast of characters at events centering on faith, politics and morality. An anti-abortion rally, for example, would feature a Baptist, a Catholic priest, an Orthodox rabbi … Then, the pro-abortion counter-rally would feature a "moderate" Baptist, a Catholic activist or two, a Reform rabbi ...
it became obvious that what was once unique was now commonplace.
“… We were witnessing a fundamental realignment in American religious pluralism," said James Davison Hunter of the University of Virginia. "Divisions that were deeply rooted in our civilization were disappearing, divisions that had for generations caused religious animosity, prejudice and even warfare. It was mind-blowing. The ground was moving."
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… But these new interfaith coalitions were fighting about something even more basic -- the nature of truth and moral authority…
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progressives are finding it harder to tolerate the views of people they consider offensive and intolerant. This is not a clash between religious people and secular people, stressed Hunter. This is a battle between two fundamentally different approaches to faith...
"We may soon reach the point when religious conservatives will long for the time when real, live, secular humanists ran the show," he said. "At least those people believed in something specific. At least they believed in reason and universal principles."
(Excerpt) Read more at nwaonline.com ...
these new interfaith coalitions were fighting about something even more basic -- the nature of truth and moral authority…
FYI
Read later.
religious conservatives will long for the time when real, live, secular humanists ran the show,”
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I’ll never long for Godless people to run any show past, present or future.
This guy is whack.
Today’s progressives refuse to let conservatives voices even be heard in the marketplace of ideas.
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