are the worst types of religious liberals out there. They actually commend any act of faith, against all logic and factual knowledge, as long as it doesn't stop them by being personally restricted or penalized by those beliefs. It's fine for the largest major Christian church, the Catholics, to be against abortion, as long as they can have an abortion if they need one. It's fine for the leader of that Catholic church to preach against same sex love, as long as the religious liberals and their family and friends are not restricted by church or government from having a same sex relationship if they want them. They support "deeply and sincerly held religious beliefs" as a concept, as long as that concept doesn't screw up their own personal lives. But when their own personal rights and powers are put in jeopardy, these religious defenders will side with the atheists, if only for that moment, so as not to appear to be too reprehensible in their insane defense of the nature of religion as a "powerful force in humanity", filled with "other ways of knowing".
Religious liberals:
They aid and abet this kind of snakebite insanity. They openly object and protest against the concept of religious beliefs could be called any form of insanity. "Oh no", these religious people on DU exclaim, they say any "ardent" or "strident" or "militant" atheists who point out this type of self-destructive insanity amongst religious believers, those atheists are worthy of scorn simply because no person should be seen as looking down upon or acting superior to "those with sincerely held religious beliefs", no matter how nutty and self-destrucive those "sincerely held religious beliefs" may be. But would these religious liberals play with snakes? Only when they don't know that supporting someone they admire, (a Pope, a Cardinal, a Priest or Minister, or a religious scholar) is acting in a way that would bite these religious liberals in the head or the butt, if given half the chance.
Religious liberals on DU just have learned to dance with different snakes, IMO.
= new reply since forum marked as read