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cbayer

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12. Here's the thing. There is no entity called the "Christian faith".

Reply to rrneck (Reply #11)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 12:17 PM

Sep 2013

The religious right and liberal/progressive christians don't see themselves as part of the same thing at all. They would like to eliminate each other.

Progressive christians aren't like the new coke. They've been around a long time and have a lot of adherents. The mistakes they made were in not fighting back when the religious right began making political inroads and in being complacent about what was happening.

It's not stillborn, it's just recovering from a lengthy illness.

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"not all like that" [View all] handmade34 Sep 2013 OP

That's nice and I understand but... rrneck Sep 2013 #1

but... handmade34 Sep 2013 #2

I'm not necessarily bashing faith in Christianity, rrneck Sep 2013 #4

"beneficial function in culture" handmade34 Sep 2013 #5

People have to believe in something rrneck Sep 2013 #6

While it may be the fundamentalists who are causing the problems, do you not see the culpability of cleanhippie Sep 2013 #14

That's exactly the point of this program - no all christians are like "that". cbayer Sep 2013 #7

Certainly not all Cristians are like that... rrneck Sep 2013 #9

Whose fault is that? I don't know that it's anyone's fault, cbayer Sep 2013 #10

I don't think the Christian faith can right the wrongs of the world until it gets its house in order rrneck Sep 2013 #11

Here's the thing. There is no entity called the "Christian faith". cbayer Sep 2013 #12

A good question to ask is rrneck Sep 2013 #13

I certainly agree about making people feel good about working together cbayer Sep 2013 #15

I (somewhat jealously) applaud your optimism rrneck Sep 2013 #17

Anything that helps bring an end to the religious right LostOne4Ever Sep 2013 #3

Excellent program. It's been posted about several times in this group, but gets little attention. cbayer Sep 2013 #8

What exactly would satisfy you, cbayer? trotsky Sep 2013 #16