From Gospel to Government: The Angry Left finds religion, and the result isn't pretty.

OpinionJournal ^ | July 1, 2005 | Joseph LoConte

[xzins]

Open Abortion and Gay rights cannot ever be Christian, so this group cannot ever be a Christian organization.

[goldstategop]

What limits the Religious Left is the fact the Democratic Party and the post-modern Left are overwhelmingly secularists composed of agnostics, skeptics, atheists and people indifferent to religion. These people abhor God Talk. And you think they want to hear it from like minded people who do believe in God any more than they want to hear it from their opponents on the Right? The Religious Left is up against a mindset hostile to even the idea of spiritual transformation. And their accomodation with the powers that be also limits their broader societal acceptance as well in that Religion does not rest easy with social licentiousness. Mainline's religion's embrace of it has led to a steady sustained decline in both its membership and its ability to spread its message. Its not a good time to be a religious liberal - a phrase that perhaps can best described as the 21st Century's classic oxymoron.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[maryz]

Dems: "How can we fool 'em today?" -- the Sequel.

[Desdemona]

I'd love to know what gospel they are reading. It doesn't seem to be any of the same ones that are in my Douhay-Rhiems.

[Desdemona]

"In his sermons and in his parables, Jesus teaches that poverty can certainly be an effective weapon of mass destruction."

So can wealth redistribution.

Poverty has so many meanings...do you think the Sermon on the Mount is anywhere in their gospel? That should be an eye-opener.

[Desdemona]

I have known individual liberals (as well as individual conservatives) who take it seriously, but many of those hold actual poor people in utter contempt, which I don't think is quite what Christ had in mind.

Very true. And a good number of those liberals have deep enough pockets to donate to groups and organizations that prey on the poor and persuade them to keep the numbers of "poor" chicldren and "children living in poverty" down. It's not a crime to be poor other than in these people's eyes.

[ovrtaxt]

Oh, joy. The last time liberal politics and occult religion mixed, we got ...

And I say 'occult' religion because these clowns have no regard for the actual content of Christianity, just the surface veneer.