Where is the 'Christian left'? ( WOW )

The Miami Herald ^ | Nov. 09, 2004 | Leonard Pitts

[montag813]

Jimmy Carter, ally and stooge of dictators and terrorists around the globe. The worst president in American history.

[JWinNC]

As I recall, Pitts wrote some good stuff after 9/11, but as time passed he reverted to same old lib stuff.

jw

[JWinNC]

I'll second that. Certainly the worst in my lifetime.

jw

[montag813]

Instead of a movement like that, we have an old peanut farmer building houses for the poor.

...and writing speeches for Yasser Arafat, and enabling North Korea to develop nuclear weapons, and providing a fig leaf for corrupt dictators all over the world, and....

[DaveTesla]

Funny we both posted the same verse.

[latina4dubya]

well, here's one of them... (i received this email today from a Christian in our small group--after a discussion we had about most of us being thrilled that Bush was re-elected... obviously, this person is not glad... here is his email:

As I type this message a child is born in Iraq, Should we kill it know or wait 15 to 18 years till he becomes a terrorist. We can keep killing for years and not even put a dent in terrorism. And know the future terrorist can't even say "the American never did any thing to us". We have, we killed their fathers,brother etc. Most of the terrorist are not even fighting by choice. I can not support this not only as a christen but as a human. I can not find in the bible where is say's it's ok to kill sometimes. As far as freeing Iraq, When did the USA become the freedom police. As soon as we leave Iraq it will just go back to the way it was. The cost, a lot of young Americans and a lot of tax dollars . Mean while anyone can still get across our boarders.

[montag813]

consorting with prostitutes

Consorting? I think he's confusing him with Dick Morris.

[perfect stranger]

"So I look at the success that conservatives on the so-called Christian right have had in claiming him as their exclusive property, and I wonder: Where in the heck is the Christian left?"

[They should be busy trying to find the verses in the Bible that support what the Democratic party stands for.]

"Where are the people who preach -- and live -- the biblical values of inclusion, service, humility and sacrifice, and why haven't they coalesced into an alternative political force?"

[They were right there next to you, most likely in line to vote just before or after you. To cancel your vote.]

"Instead of a movement like that, we have an old peanut farmer building houses for the poor."

[Jimmy Carter might have been a horrible president but I would not belittle his work with "Habitat for Humanity" like this. Talk about bitter.]

"You wish there were Christian people shouting from the rooftops that these other people do not represent all of us."

[They shouted from the rooftops. We all heard them, and 3.5 million of them did not shout 'John Kerry', they shouted 'George Bush'.]

"And that the faith exemplified by the politics of exclusion is not the faith that the rest of us celebrate, (and) not the faith that lifts us and settles us and makes us whole."

[That seems to ring true. Democrats are the only party teaching 'exclusion'.]

"But nobody's shouting these things. It occurs to me that maybe they're all too busy building houses for poor people. And that maybe I should be as well."

[You might as well try construction, because the last 6 words of that sentence shows that you missed the basic lessons of 4th grade grammer.]

[Leonard Pitts writes for The Miami Herald and I encourage you to email his pansy a## ......pitts@herald.com]

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Great minds think alike. :)

[mplsconservative]

"the Bible is not a treatise on social welfare for the poor."

It is a map to find he kingdom of heaven.

Sometimes I think the left confuses Jesus with Robin Hood."


That is an excellent analogy and one I will find most useful.

Thank you.

[ShowMeMom]

It took the left a full week to find a Baptist in their ranks. Carter's a Baptist just like Kerry was when on the last Sunday before the election he he raised his hands in a black pulpit and said, "let us now go and walk in the path of Jesus".

absolutely no shame

[DaveTesla]

"Instead of a movement like that, we have an old peanut farmer building houses for the poor."

And the 1.6 million abortions a year that his leadership
of the democratic party is the instigator for?
After 40 million dead in the U.S. alone they say it
wrong to fight against our enemies?

Bad to loose 1000 men fighting terroists after 3000
Americans were murdered in 1 hour?
But ok to kill 1.6 million children a year?
God says that all our good deeds are like filthy rags.
One can not get into heaven by good deeds.


Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

[Tamzee]

Where in the heck is the Christian left?

Guess they are too busy marching for the "choice" to stick scissors in an infant's brain.

[DaveTesla]

Clever liars arent they?

Matthew 25:31
31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the
angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his
glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and
he will separate people one from another as a shepherd
separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and he will put the
sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left.

[DaveTesla]

Matthew 41 Then he will say to those at his left
hand, "You that are accursed, depart from me into the
eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;

[fish hawk]

Carter has a favorite Bible verse: "Love your enemies". So he loves Castro, Bin Laden, Hussein, shall I go on?

[Tamzee]

I just find it inconceivable that anyone thinking themselves a Christian could ever support the left... mindboggling.

[Tamzee]

As far as freeing Iraq, When did the USA become the freedom police.

So she considered the overwhelming systemic torture of human beings none of her business? I bet if her next door neighbor was dipping cats into vats of acid or gouging the eyes out of tied up dogs that she would consider it her duty to intervene... but not when this brutality is inflicted on humans?

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engMDE140082001?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES%5CIRAQ

[mlmr]

I was a Christian Leftist. I found myself moving from Christ's words to Liberation Theology to Marxism. I found that my fellow travelers had little respect for me, or anyone who was not as narrow and dogmatic as they were. An avid reader, I was reading another anti Christian rant in Z magazine...or was it the Progressive? And I realized with cold clarity that I had more in common with Jerry Falwell and the Right than I did with the Left. Thus began a slow walk Rightwards.

[TheForceOfOne]

Christian left? Isn't that an oxymoron?