How does your faith shape your politics?

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3. My lack of faith causes me to seek fact-based solutions.

For example, global warming is caused by greenhouse gases, not gay sex.

Also, deconstruction of racist assumptions made me realize that there really is only one humanity and, ultimately, one human community. It is irrational to suppose that a tiny minority deserves to be unimaginably rich or that some people are naturally evil.

I no longer seek to justify institutional cruelty. Our prison system, for example is an abomination and eventually should be abolished.

These realizations have freed my mind and my feelings from constraint allowing me to see the world as it is--both good and bad things.

I have also been able to reject the idea of vengeance as inherently destructive and damaging. After September 11, 2001, this nation should have forgiven the terrorists, taken some basic precautions, and declined to exact vengeance on the largely innocent people of Afghanistan.

BTW, I have a friend who is a very serious Evangelical Christian, who reaches most of the same exact conclusions I do.