[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] People who don’t work with people day in and day out, in the trenches of their lives, can afford to philosophize about people, to make up abstractions, and talk about the rightness/wrongness of people in philosophical terms, holding people up to their abstractions and deciding who fits and who is lackingContinue reading “The Reality That Is Making Me More Liberal (theologically)”
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Is Everyone Racist?
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] Intro to a controversial question: Is everyone racist? This article from The Onion recently provoked some good thoughts among some of my conservative brethren and really got me thinking about why it is that conservative arguments on various issues are so often dismissed as racist on some level. The issue ofContinue reading “Is Everyone Racist?”
Being Liberal
It’s funny. Theologically, I don’t consider myself a liberal at all. My views simply feel to me like growth into knowledge, which has happened over a long period of time, and which actually include far more claims to not know than to know. But I know I am seen by some — perhaps many —Continue reading “Being Liberal”
The Actual Message of Jesus
Interesting how if you try to mobilize Christians against violence, injustice, and greed, which Jesus actually talked about, you are called a liberal, radical, do-gooder, treehugger, or whatever. If you try to mobilize them against taking “In God we trust” off our money, against abortion, and against gays, which Jesus spoke nothing about, you areContinue reading “The Actual Message of Jesus”
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