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Bleeding Hearts Liberals believe deeply in tolerance and over the last century have led the battles against prejudices of all kinds. However, they seem to have a blind spot about Christian evangelicals who constitute a minority that remains fashionable to mock. It betrays a profound misunderstanding of how far evangelicals have changed over the last decade. Today, conservative Christian churches do superb work on poverty, AIDS, sex trafficking, climate change, prison abuses, malaria and genocide in Darfur. Bleeding-heart liberals could accomplish far more if they reached out to build common cause with bleeding-heart conservatives. And the Democratic presidential candidate (particularly if it’s Mr. Obama, to whom evangelicals have been startlingly receptive) has a real chance this year of winning large numbers of evangelical voters. A recent CBS News poll found that the single issue that white evangelicals most believed they should be involved in was fighting poverty. The traditional issue of abortion was a distant second, and genocide was third. Self-righteous zealots have been a plague upon our country, and their smugness about AIDS as “God’s judgment against promiscuity” constituted far grosser immorality than anything that ever happened in a bathhouse. Today, many evangelicals are powerful internationalists and humanitarians – and liberals haven’t awakened to the transformation. So my question today, is there room on the left for a Conservative Christian such as myself or will the liberal crowd find something new to hate about the church going right? And by the way, if Christianity is so bad, why do liberals embrace the "Christmas Spirit, participate in Easter egg hunts with their , and come home for Thanksgiving?" -- VICKY -- Cut, pasted, and edited from The New York Times, February 3, 2008, By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF with a little bit of my own point of view thrown in. |
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2/19/2008 8:38 pm |
My dear friend RejoiceFrance Oh, my goddness, I missed your birthday. I am so sorry. How young are you now? 29 years old? Love you VICKY
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2/5/2008 4:45 pm |
DEAR RJF It is good to seeing the new faces stopping by to share their points of view and you know there is never a wrong opinion cause everyone is entitle to their view point, as long as they have room to let others express theirs too. But you know I am very open minded and not really too close minded and seldom do I have a very formed opinion about anything except maybe a few that you know about that I have already expressed here. What I enjoy the most is that we can express ourselves here freely and if someone violates the spirit, well, we have lots of receipe for cooking the dog. VICKY
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2/5/2008 11:05 am |
My Dear Friend, RejoiceFrance You know I am not here to stir the pot and make turbulance. I am looking for intelligent conversation. And you notice that the men are avoiding this topic. VICKY
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2/5/2008 11:04 am |
Does seeing a book call"talk on tenth"? That is I at childhood to religion first understanding.... I at abroad also usually go to church, only is appreciate music, is a source there. Happy new year! And please feel free to come back and share with us again. VICKY
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2/5/2008 11:02 am |
My daar friend, As ususal, you share some very nice points of view that helps me to understand this topic. I received an email from several men saying that I was too controversial and you know I actually they are instead cowards because they are afraid to express their views. I hope you come back and share more of your view points with me. That way we all can learn from each other. VICKY
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2/3/2008 10:58 pm |
Does seeing a book call"talk on tenth"? That is I at childhood to religion first understanding.... I at abroad also usually go to church, only is appreciate music, is a source there. Happy new year!
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