Tag: Religious Right
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Will Religious Progressives Replace the Religious Right?
There has recently been speculation about religious progressives becoming the new Religious Right. See the Atlantic, The Rise of the Christian Left in America, and Slate Are Millennials Killing Off the Religious Right? And Salon The rise of the religious left. Commonweal's Peter Steinfels offers some good insights in his piece, Religious Progressives? He is…
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Why We Need More Religion in Politics, Not Less – Timothy Dalrymple
Philosophical Fragments: Why We Need More Religion in Politics, Not Less – Timothy Dalrymple Dalrymple highlights the popular perception that the mixing of politics and religion is unique to the Republican Party. He makes the case that Obama has been quite willing to mix the two throughout his presidency. Romney is more reticent to bring…
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Richard Neuhaus
The Economist: Richard Neuhaus WHILE the rest of the world fawned on Barack Obama, Richard Neuhaus took no joy in him. If Mr Obama truly meant, as he said, to liberalise abortion rules from his first day in office, Father Neuhaus foresaw an intensification of the culture wars at every level of American life. But…
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Atheists challenge the religious right
Christian Science Monitor: Atheists challenge the religious right For some time, the religious right has decried "secular humanism," a philosophy that rejects the supernatural or spiritual as a basis for moral decisionmaking. But now, nonbelievers are vigorously fighting back. Only a small percentage of Americans admit to being nontheists (between 2 and 9 percent, depending…
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Spoils of Victory
From Christianity Today: Spoils of Victory In the immediate aftermath of the 2006 Democratic takeover of Congress, conventional wisdom said many evangelicals had abandoned the GOP. News outlets and analysts eagerly described a "seismic shift" that pointed to the "end of the conservative pendulum swing" and a weakened Republican base. In a widely publicized Beliefnet…
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Theocracy, Anyone?
From Christianity Today: Theocracy, Anyone? An editorial. Jesus rules! But that doesn't mean we yearn for a state ruled by the church. ….. Fortunately, we needn't discuss each book specifically, because a single basic argument unites almost all of them: "A group of religious utopians, with the sympathy and support of tens of millions of…
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Conservative Christians v. the Religious Right
Conservative Christians v. the Religious Right is an article at NextWave by a Lutheran pastor in Canada. He makes some helpful distinctions, and I expect some of the same could be said about distinctions among those on the religious left.