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Re: The Simple Reality: Conservatives Are Destroying Christianity 

By: clo in ALEA | Recommend this post (1)
Sun, 12 Apr 15 6:57 PM | 136 view(s)
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Good morning Cactus Flower,

I agree.

'Religious Conservatives' control the republican primaries, thus select their candidate for the general.

As for Catholicism, some cardinals/bishops/priests/ attempted to control voters in the recent past. Claiming that voting for John Kerry would be in essence a sin, because he followed the law that allows a woman to choose.

Now with Pope Francis, I expect that to be toned down.

As a person born into catholicism, attended parochial school, I have evolved. I'm more agnostic, yet I LOVE Pope Francis ;))
I tend to take the good & leave the rest & for me 'religion' doesn't help make me the best I can be.




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Re: The Simple Reality: Conservatives Are Destroying Christianity
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sun, 12 Apr 15 6:12 PM 		Msg. 16826 of 54959

hi clo,

don't forget that the us version of christianity is a small fraction of it. non-us christians mostly seem benign to me. roman catholicism learnt to accept the world as it is along the way. you don't see pope francis or the archbishop of canterbury telling folks to disbelieve science because of a quote in the bible.

strict reading of any book is likely to lack the nuance necessary to deal with evolving cultures and realities. i say the same thing about the constitution as i do about christianity and islam. in my view, fundamentalist readings of any document are almost always poisonous. strict construction is as damaging to us politics as fundamentalism is to islam and christianity.

the world demands that we evolve. always. any man-made document which thinks it can stem that tide lacks the required canute-like humility.

people like pat robertson are simply ridiculous. but also, arrogant and lacking in any obvious wisdom.

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