Dan Savage Wants Liberals To Recover 'Hijacked' Christianity

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27. Liberal minority? I don't know about that.

If the liberal religious even are the minority, it cannot be by much. I would certainly not call Catholics as necessarily right wingers, nor Jews, nor United Church of Christ, nor many Methodists, nor Quakers, nor Universalists, etc. There are many religious sects in this country who would stake a claim on liberal religion.

The claim by Savage is well taken. There are many who are not stepping up to the plate. We need more Rev. Barry Lynns in this country (director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State).

I am with Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett here. By not being loud and proud, the liberals give comfort to the few loud, reactionary theocratics in our midst, who the media inevitably trot out on all sorts of issues.

And who do the media trot out to oppose them? Of course, it's the atheists. The media loves the chair-throwing arguments. We rarely see the Barry Lynns, and only occasionally the actual Barry Lynn. They would rather see Hitchens, Dawkins, or somebody like them who make for more compelling drama.

I agree. The liberal theists are not doing their part. Or, at best are prevented from doing their part by cultural biases.

If this could be changed, one might find out that the liberals and their followers might outnumber the far more outspoken kooks.