Are liberals responsible for what any flavor Christian says or does?

[GreenPartyVoter]

We've had a series of threads on this at DU lately, and I found myself repeating the same answer over and over so I finally said to Him "I get the hint already" and blogged about it.

Nothing too in-depth; just a series of thoughts. Feel free to add a few of your own there as well. You don't have to sign up. Just hit reply and toss in your two cents worth.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/thought_express/14905.html

[RevCheesehead]

1. Nobody is responsible for what any other person says or does.

Geez, it's like we've forgotten what PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is all about! I cannot control the thoughts or actions of any other person, try as hard as I might.

America is the land of free ideas and free speech. We have to learn how to live with it. If someone wants to worship a flying spaghetti monster, that's their choice. If someone else is offended that the pasta cult exists, too bad. That's life in America.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I agree with that, but what about the issues of

women's choice, gay marriage, evolution vs I.D., and abstinence-only versus true sex ed?

Somehow it seems more and more like it is up to the conservative people to decide what should or should not be done in this country. I don't want to live under a Christian Sharia law. I want control over my own body, I want my gay friends to have the same rights I enjoy as a straight person, and I want my kids to be educated instead of indoctrinated.

[I_Make_Mistakes]

3. I think we are having the same issue as the other religious

fundamentalist movements. It is hard to challenge, lest we lower ourselves to their level. They are rude, nasty and down right so sure of their own righteousness, that they forget get how to behave like a Christian (humility is truly lacking in their world, fueled by morans like Rush, Vanity, O'liely etc.) I refuse to sink to that level, or I become them.

I have humility, respect for others, love for my neighbors, and a true desire to help all of us attain equality and fairness, They hate that!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. I think GPV is referring to the way that some of the DU atheists

keep telling us that it's our job to "fix" the fundamentalists.

Unless you're inside Christianity, it's hard to understand that the fundies hate us even more than they hate the atheists, because they believe that we "know the truth" and are deliberately perverting it.

No fundie would ever listen to a liberal Episcopalian. I'ts like saying that it's the Socialists' job to "fix" the Republicans. They're both political parties, aren't they?

[AspenRose]

5. And I am sick and tired of said posts.

Just fed up with them.

[shrike]

6. Not anymore than atheists were responsible for the Marquis De Sade

and his actions. (A famous, or should we say notorious, atheist.) Or, should I say, the atheists of his day ...