Steps and missteps in the culture wars
A previously conservative pastor says drop the dogma:
“America wasn’t founded as a theocracy,” he said. “America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn’t bloody and barbaric."
While Dems in Indiana and Ohio amp God and Guns.
Umm. Good luck, folks.
posted by Undersecretary to the Deputy Commissariat at 12:53 AM
2 Comments:
Honestly, and as an agnostic, I see nothing wrong with embracing Christians with Democratic political values into the party; the churches were the center, not the periphery, of the civil rights movement, and of the anti-slavery movement, back in the day. And if we can encourage the strain of Christianity that embraces tolerance and concern for the poor, you know the actual things Jesus said part, all the better. We already have a great method for reconciling the privatre practice of faith and secular goverment: it's called the Constitution, and with the right kind of political culture that can - pardon me while I gag slightly on my own rhetoric- untie people of all faiths and non-faiths into a common national purpose of compassion and liberty, that is as it should be.
Of course that strain should be encouraged. Pragmatically speaking, no party can rule without support from the ranks of the religious.
But my read of the nonscientific sample comprised by the three articles linked in my post is that, by embracing the faithful, the Democrat Party could lose a signficant chunk of its soul in abortion and gay issues.
Not a very profitable venture.
Things like this might explain why I can't bring myself to join the party.
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