The 'religious left'
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is striking back at religious liberals.
On Wednesday, during a discussion with a caller named "David" from Merrick, N.Y., he held forth on what the left does not understand about the late Pope John Paul II, adding:
"I would submit to you that people on the left are religious, too. Their God is just different. The left has a different God. There's a religious left in this country.
"And, the religious left in this country hates and despises the God of Christianity and Catholicism and whatever else. They despise it because they fear it, because it's a threat, because that God has moral absolutes. That God has right and wrong, that God doesn't deal in nuance, that God doesn't deal in gray area, that God says, 'This is right and that is wrong.' "
Mr. Limbaugh continued, "A lot of people on the left don't want to hear that. They want to define that for themselves, and they don't want to be judged, and they don't want anybody casting judgment on them and forcing anything on them so there's fear. All this fear prohibits and gets in the way of people understanding who other people are."
Reaction from religious liberals was swift. The Interfaith Alliance yesterday called the remarks "religious hate talk." |
