7 Responses to Some on The Religious Right Make it So EASY for Us Liberals

1. Lynn says:

   July 30, 2010 at 1:09 pm

   Very funny!

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2. Susan R. says:

   July 30, 2010 at 1:17 pm

   Thanks for posting this. I missed it somehow. Scott Lively is such a total freak!

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3. SteveJ says:

   July 31, 2010 at 2:14 am

   When people abandon evangelical faith, why do they so readily gravitate to the equally irrational notions of big-government, welfare-state liberalism? Come on, admit it: You smart people really KNOW the left’s ideas are idiotic and never work. Surely this is an emotional reaction aimed at tweaking the Dobson/Robertson devotees and discrediting annoying social conservatives. ‘Fess up now. You know I’m right.

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   • Bruce says:

     July 31, 2010 at 3:22 am

     Hey Steve,

     Thanks for the comment.

     Actually part of my abandonment of Christianity was political in nature. The last five years or so in the pastorate I continued to move politically left. This move was reflected in my preaching.

     I consider myself a liberal. But, I also support raising taxes and cutting the budget in order to balance the budget. The welfare state is not the problem. Military spending is the problem 2 wars. Pork barrel spending. Lots of places to cut before we cut the “least of these.”

     Big government is not the problem. Inefficient, bad government is.

     The Republicans would have more credibility with me if they distanced themselves from the lunatics in their party. But they won’t do this.

     While I find the Tea Party quite annoying, I do have sympathies for a few of their positions. Our government is out of control, at every level. We need to decide what kind of country we want to have. As a liberal, a person with socialist tendencies, I am sure my ideal government is much different than a conservative Republican, or a member of the Tea Party movement. Somehow we have to bridge the gap. and come to a common agreement about the future of our country.

     I voted for Obama. I am not sure I would do so again. He has proved to be a centrist and, so far, a man with few rock solid convictions. He compromises far too easily and he seems to not want to fight. Politics are all about fighting. Some things matter.

     Bruce

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4. SteveJ says:

   July 31, 2010 at 1:12 pm

   Bruce, I disagree profoundly with almost everything you said here about politics. But I respect the fact that you didn’t just adopt liberal politics as a knee-jerk reaction against evangelicals. I suspect a lot of people do that very thing. But if your political transformation preceded your deconversion, then I stand corrected in my above assumptions. I enjoy your blog, BTW.

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   • Bruce says:

     August 2, 2010 at 3:43 pm

     Thanks Steve.

     I was raised in a John Bircher, right wing family. I pretty much held to that line of thinking/politics until the early 90′s. The first Iraq war is the point where things really began to change for me.

     Bruce

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5. Kay says:

   August 4, 2010 at 1:59 pm

   Haha! I love John Stewart. Thanks for making my morning.

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