AlterNet: The Rise of the Religious Left — Why Christianity Isn’t Just for Conservatives
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Bravo!! It is about time this article was written (though lesser-known ones have been around for years…)
Perhaps the most demonstrable reality of the author’s comments is that one of the most powerful voices of the “religious left” – Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners (an anti-poverty organization, of which I have been a member for six years), and author of “God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It” (2005) and “The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America” (2008) – is now Obama’s primary faith leader adviser.
I could write pages on my agreement with this article – and, indeed, have, at many points in the past few years. But rather than waste space echoing it, I will simply say that I am happy to see this article, and know that at least some in the alternative press “get it” re the history of religion and social justice, and the way in which the “good” works of faith-based organizations and individuals over the past century or more were undermined by the rise of the Religious Right.
Bravo again.
Peace.
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