Are the Democrats Anti-Religion

Beliefnet ^ | 7-28-03 | Rod Dreher

[SJackson]

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[Cacophonous]

Are the Democrats Anti-Religion?

No, they are anti-Christian. They are all for benevolent, benign, nebulous "spirituality" though.

[zchip]

I have observed that the Democrats by and large are very supportive of the "religion-of-peace." They are decidedly anti-christian however.

[Tribune7]

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[Paul Atreides]

Dims are anti-Christian, except when Christ has been co-opted by homosexuals, feminazis, and abortionists.

[Bosco]

The Democrats are very religious. They regularly worship all sorts of things: abortion, government dollars, power, government programs, THEMSELVES, money, you-name-the-special-interest rights, trees, endangered species, Castro.

I could go on but I think I've made my point.

[Fzob]

I suspect that most reporters, editors, and producers would be shocked by these findings. They really do think of themselves as, to pinch a phrase, "fair and balanced."

I don't think they would be shocked at all. To the media elite, religious traditionalists are news because they think they are not a mainstream eleement of society. On the other hand a story about the impact of secularist in politics is equilavlent to a dog bite man story. Being secular is normal to them, why report on something so boring and normal.

[pabianice]

Does a Kennedy pass-out in a bar?

[rhema]

Besides their "religion of peace" affinity (see post #4), Democrats are enthusiastic supporters of the First Existential Church of the Warm Fuzzy, the archbishop of which is the Ex-President Who Thinks With His Glands.

Churches that have the temerity to use terms like sin aren't big on Democrat lists. The name of Jesus, when used in any way other than an expletive, elicits immediate flop sweat in most Democrats.

[ChadGore]

[meow]

No one ever explained to me the difference between religion and "spirituality". Does it have to do with trees and birds or something?

[bluebunny]

Yes, I believe so.

[SJackson]

Does a Kennedy pass-out in a bar?

Unfortunately, no, they leave and drive.

[Consort]

I thought that most Catholics and Jews vote Democrat. What's going on?

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Socialism is their religion. Liberalism is the epression of their religion. Liberalism is relativism and Christianity and Judiamism are at odds with the left's political religion. Political religions are evil. Communism comes to mind before the Palistinians invented themselves.

The mystery is why they seem to like Islam, because they too are in the Jihadists sights. There is no safety there for the Dems, just more cannon fodder to the Muslim Extremists. Not too bad an idea. Does Hillary think for one moment that somewhere along the line Arafat and his Frenchified wife would not have slit her throat, sat on her stomach and eaten breakfast? Silly girl.

[johniegrad]

Good post. Thanks.

[Cacophonous]

The way liberals like to toss around the word "spirituality" has little to do with Christianity (the only religion I can speak to) because the latter requires them to their faith in something bigger than themselves, which of course requires that they first acknowledge that there is something bigger than they are, and that they are not the end all. Liberals, being thinly disguised socialists, have a hard time grasping a higher power than themselves and their own intellects.

I suspect that when someone bubbles that they are "spiritual", they really mean that are capable of being awed. By the world around us, by a baby's laughter, by a beautiful spring day. They may even admit there are things they do not understand. This IS the Holy Spirit working in them.

But they are blind to the next step: that God is responsible for all those things.

Then there is the actual liberal agenda, which wants to do away with the concept of God altogether, but recognizes that people are capable of being awed. So until they find a way to get the state to take credit for babies' laughter, they push an amorphous "spirituality".

[stinkypew]

Atheists logically must reject moral absolutes. Christ is just as dead as Hitler. No ultimate justice/no sin; and they may be right. Who knows.

But tell some atheist environmentalist that she logically must admit that it is merely her subjective judgment that it is "wrong" to burn that tree or make it into a desk.

Most of the idiots have no idea of the inherent contradictions in their belief systems. Dostoyevsky wrote that "Without God, all is permissible." The secular left wants to impose their own moral absolutes while rejecting the only possible basis for absolutes. Idiots.

[JZoback]

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