Posted on 03/11/2005 10:53:49 AM PST by ShinerBock
"On the train ride back to Yale from Boston in the morning hours of Nov. 3, 2004, my best friend looked at me through eyes tearing with frustration and said, “Your people did this.” She turned her head to the aisle and spent our trip upset and without words.
I am a Christian. I also grew up in the American South. “My people”--both Christians and Southerners, according to my friend and many Yale students--are changing our nation with a conservative agenda.
That agenda is not mine. Many Christians, like myself, strongly believe in separation of church and state; are Democrats and pro-choice; support women in ministry as preachers and teachers; and believe that God loves all people, regardless of race, creed, color or sexual orientation.
It is possible for Christians to represent such God-like views and not be radical judgmentalists. It is possible for Christians to be loving, kind, conversational and respectful of persons of different faiths."
(Excerpt) Read more at yaledailynews.com ...
sorry to offend the author (and others perhaps), but the Bible does not teach that God loves all people, which the author says is one of her core beliefs....
I know this makes me a bad, bad person, but I couldn't help but get a shot of Schadenfreude when I read this part :)
Don't the Unitarian/Universalists call themselves
"Christian"?
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A new definition of "tolerance".
Ping
OK, I've emailed her, chiding her for making such a non-substantive argument. If you're going to call us racists, then you at least need to make some decent arguments!
elizabeth.hinson@yale.edu
Ah, the liberal arrogance again.
Just as liberals are more intelligent, more compassionate, and morally superior to conservatives. They know better than the masses what's best for us. It doesn't surprise me at all that they would claim to be better Christians.
Maybe they could try that approach in the next election.
"She is apparently profoundly ashamed at being at Southerner and a Christian."
That is exactly what I thought - she doesn't have the conviction to live the way she was raised at Yale - so she will lash out at it. Nothing like a rebellious college kid.
So her friend was balling on the train because Bush won an election?
And then blames it on her friend?
Your problem is not conservative Christians, lady. It's the morons you hang out with.
Another 29 year-old college student heard from.
She's not a Christian. Period. Supporting homosexuality and abortion are proof positive. End of discussion.
Where does she get off calling us ignorant when she doesn't even make a real argument against us? All she does is level charges that conservative Christinas are unloving, judgmental, intolerant, racist. Is that all the substance she has?
If anyone is ignorant, it's her. She has no understanding of the political dynamics of this country. The Christian right hasn't "duped" anyone. If they did, then who's the ignorant one?
I didn't catch that in the essay. This maudlin ninnypanties is almost THIRTY?!
The Newly Expurgated and Revised New Revised Living Plain Inglish Wimmin's Version,Third Edition naturally. Doesn't everyone?
LOL!
As a Christian, I am more concerned with people's actions than I am with titles, and I believe that people can only prove their Christianity through love and commitment to Jesus' teachings.Trust me, honey, killing the unborn ain't love.
If a Christian is murdering babies, then us "right-wing" Christians surely shouldn't call them to task over such a thing. I couldn't bear it if they called me ignorant. /sarcasm
Christianity's problem isn't conservative Christians. It's people like her who gut Christian doctrine and still parade around as "Christians". You can't be a Christian if you abandon everything distinctive about it!
I wonder if she will want to "reclaim" Christianity from
- "Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money?" (Matt 20:15)
- "If you will enter into life, keep the Commandments." (Matt 19:17)
- "The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil... The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace..." (Matthew 13:28-43)
- "...outside are the homosexuals, those who misuse drugs in connection with the occult, the sexually immoral, murderers, idol-worshippers, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood." (Rev 22:15)
Based on the article, I would guess she would rather reclaim Christianity from the founder of that faith.
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