"... the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities, who should all be taken out and shot."
- Anyone notice the irony here?
I used to get the impression around here that some people at the old TWeb hated liberal Christians even more than atheists, presumably as closet apostates.
It's become a truism that liberals and conservatives across denominational lines now tend to agree with each other much more and differ from the other much more, eg, conservative Catholics and conservative Baptists agreeing with each other against liberal Catholics and liberal Baptists. The differences outlined by denominational doctrinal and ecclesiological positions seem to have been relativised with more importance being attributed to the political sphere. Some of this, I suppose, has to do with the rise of the moral majority and Christian right political activism. Some conservative denominations that used to eschew political involvement have actively embraced politics, and in my view sometimes foolishly, being manipulated by political strategists like Karl Rove. Whereas the liberal interest groups tend to embrace a secular ideology and therefore do not tend to appeal to religious beliefs and sentiments and sometimes even actively denigrate them.
Regarding politics, where one might expect, or at least hope for, genuine dialogue within the church among fellow believers, we do not find this. Similarly, those religious voices on the right and the left that critique government and politics from a higher religious perspective are no longer heard.
Anyway, just my daily musings about the importance of the unity of the body of Christ and fraternal love and respect.
Oh, by the way, here's the source of the quote at the beginning of the post.
Catholic Group Leader Calls for Liberal Academics To Be 'Taken Out and Shot'
- Anyone notice the irony here?
I used to get the impression around here that some people at the old TWeb hated liberal Christians even more than atheists, presumably as closet apostates.
It's become a truism that liberals and conservatives across denominational lines now tend to agree with each other much more and differ from the other much more, eg, conservative Catholics and conservative Baptists agreeing with each other against liberal Catholics and liberal Baptists. The differences outlined by denominational doctrinal and ecclesiological positions seem to have been relativised with more importance being attributed to the political sphere. Some of this, I suppose, has to do with the rise of the moral majority and Christian right political activism. Some conservative denominations that used to eschew political involvement have actively embraced politics, and in my view sometimes foolishly, being manipulated by political strategists like Karl Rove. Whereas the liberal interest groups tend to embrace a secular ideology and therefore do not tend to appeal to religious beliefs and sentiments and sometimes even actively denigrate them.
Regarding politics, where one might expect, or at least hope for, genuine dialogue within the church among fellow believers, we do not find this. Similarly, those religious voices on the right and the left that critique government and politics from a higher religious perspective are no longer heard.
Anyway, just my daily musings about the importance of the unity of the body of Christ and fraternal love and respect.
Oh, by the way, here's the source of the quote at the beginning of the post.
Catholic Group Leader Calls for Liberal Academics To Be 'Taken Out and Shot'
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