yeah, yeah, more politics...

[psybelle]

Nothing to see here, move along...


I'm pretty sure everybody on my friends-list has at least one progressive cause they believe in passionately, and I know not everybody on the list is as pagan-oriented as I am. So... I'm looking for resources to share amongst the moderate and progressive Christians I know.

Because? Seriously, David Barton (and his ilk) needs to be exposed as the lying sack of shit that he is, stripped of all credibility and respect, and his work (and those who believe it) be denounced as utter hogwash. Huckabee needs to be reminded (sure, "forcibly") that what he wished for at the Rediscover God in America conference is both un-American and un-Constitutional, and may well be a breach of whatever oaths he took to become a public official, whatever oaths he might swear in the future. And this needs to come from Christians.


So - I'd like to round up some resources wherein there are suggestions on how to deal with the Christian Supremacists and the Dominionists and the other unpleasant brethren, from a Christian perspective...

Comments

[elf]

dark_christian at LJ has a number of Christian participants who are appalled at the dominionists. (Which means they also have discussions wherein various Christians point out what brought them to the awareness that Dominionists Are Bad, which I mostly ignore 'cos I'm rather out of energy for trying to convince Christians of anything about their co-religionists. But the info is there.)

I expect religion to be the next big oppression dialogue, with Islam getting the lion's share of the attention as an oppressed group. Much like feminism or anti-racism, I expect that people who try to bring up the problems with these systems & practices will be told that they're seeing problems that don't really exist, that by noticing differences they are creating them, and that sensible people don't care what category a person is in as long as they're just decent people.

I expect this to be further complicated by Christians claiming they're not being oppressive; they're just acting as their religion tells them to, and that attempting to stop them is infringing on *their* religious freedoms.

... Am I allowed to hope that they'll all go away on May 21? Or most of them? (I mean. I have some very dear Christian friends, whom I'd miss horribly. But I could console myself with the belief that they're in heaven, and get on with my life without the other several billion of them that I wouldn't miss.)