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To: Lane3 who wrote (150652)12/12/2005 1:40:27 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793838
 
This is a subject on which you need to do some more research.

Liberal Christianity is collegial and non-dogmatic

They are totally dogmatic on the subject of increasing the power of the collective. And they are not above shaming anyone who doesn't share this collectivist vision.



To: Lane3 who wrote (150652)12/12/2005 1:53:05 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793838
 
Liberal Christianity is collegial and non-dogmatic as opposed to the absolutism and fundamentalism on the right. There is no political agenda in that other that to resist absolutism and fundamentalism.

You need to spend some time at a Unitarian church. :>)



To: Lane3 who wrote (150652)12/12/2005 2:10:40 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Respond to of 793838
 
The engineering analysis. political philosophies are ideas and beliefs. religions are ideas and beliefs.

absolutism and fundamentalism are ways to describe how humans express and live by their ideas and beliefs.

humans are always in some ways into absolutism and fundamentalism.
humans never can agree on the meaning of absolutism and fundamentalism.

There is goodness in liberalism and Christianity. There is goodness in absolutism and fundamentalism. Humans can and do find the badness in everything. They also find the goodness.



To: Lane3 who wrote (150652)12/16/2005 5:00:07 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793838
 
There are virtually no people on the political left who approach politics as a religious act.

What about the "Gaia"/green/eco-nuts. Or the "liberation theology" types?

Tim