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In reply to the discussion: How can religious moderates be said to enable hateful fundamentalists? [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)6. You have a point, but...
Moderates aren't really actively supporting the religious right, as far as I can see. "Enabling" implies, IMHO, tacit approval, which is not what is happening here (again, IMHO).
I think that IRS rules may play a role here. They don't seem to stop the religious right, but moderates might be a bit afraid to cross the River Styx of political speech. Most prominent moderate religious leaders are probably most sensitive to this. Even if it isn't enforced against the religious right, the rules have not been changed. Losing tax free status is a biggie.
There may be cultural issues, too. I am no expert here, so I am just tossing out ideas for comment. Does anybody have any study that looks into this?
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How can religious moderates be said to enable hateful fundamentalists? [View all]
trotsky
Apr 2012
OP
You either didn't read or didn't understand your own "rebuttal". It makes my point perfectly!
dmallind
Apr 2012
#34
Thoroughgoing religious liberalism in no way enables fundamentalism.
E_Pluribus_Unitarian
Apr 2012
#20
That's a gigantic caveat you just tried to tack on innocuously at the end there!
trotsky
Apr 2012
#43
Of course, I never said they couldn't. So bully for the brilliant dispatch of that straw man.
trotsky
Apr 2012
#46
So given the fact that groups of freethinkers/skeptics/atheists and individuals gave their open
humblebum
Apr 2012
#58
I was not aware that the Constitution had any teeth outside of the Unites States, and
humblebum
Apr 2012
#61
Christianity has been reforming for two thousand years and continues to reform
Leontius
Apr 2012
#74
Making heavy use of helicopters painted in the color black, I'm sure.
2ndAmForComputers
Apr 2012
#76