A few years ago, a young union organizer asked me, “Which are the good churches and which are the bad ones?” He wanted a quick (and intellectually easy) way to understand which faith bodies would be the most supportive of workers’ rights. “It’s not that simple,” I told him. His question was like asking, “Which are the good unions and which… return to article
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Reader Comments (6)Page 1 of 1 pagesWallis is an interesting person, and hardly as much an oddity as the media would have us believe. There are many evangelical Christians who do not belong to the Christian Right, as it is mislabled.
It is also worth noting that when Republicans are questioned in exit polls, their religious affiliation is always covered. Not so with Democratic voters, so it is impossible to say how many evangelicals may be voting for Obama or even Clinton.
There is a growing movement among evangelicals (I am not one myself) to actually emulate their supposed leader (care about the poor, the enviroment, peace, justice, etc.) instead of the slobbering christianists and Christian Zionists who the media foists upon us all as the true leaders of the church. This movement could benefit us all, regardless of our own faiths or lack thereof, and we should do what we can to encourage its growth.
We need everybody that is willing to help turn things around, and to marginalize, and eventually silence, those who would destroy the world in the name of their hideous god.
Posted by opeluboy on Mar 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM As a Christian woman, 76 years old, I have a big problem with the Christian right (wrong?).
I do not see the life of Jesus or his teachings, in a large number of churches who call for judgment and punishment of many of their own members. Where is our authorization to demand that others have to walk in lockstep with the hierarchy of our own particular church/denomination?
They, who have supported for years, discrimination against people of color, red and yellow, black and white and women, and do not seem to understand his very clear admonishments of how we treat people “other than us”.
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