Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly Mug," etc.

Tristan McLeay sikyal:

> Joe wrote:
>
> >Actually, I wonder why right-wing politics and christianity seem to go hand
> >in hand so often...
> >
> >
> In my opinion/experience, they don't, any more than left-wing politics
> and christianity seem to go hand in hand. Though that seems to be an
> often-held American conception, so perhaps churches are more
> conservative in America then in Australia, I don't know.
It's mostly an effect of having an extremely vocal right-wing section of
the Christian church active in American politics. The "Religious Right",
as it's called, makes its interpretation of Christian scripture the
centerpiece of its political platform, and more or less crowds out other
Christian viewpoints. Leftist Christians, as a general tendency, are less
vocal about the fact that they *are* Christians, for fear of being
associated with the right-wing branch of the religion.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/
http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/blog

Jesus asked them, "Who do you say that I am?"

And they answered, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground
of our being, the kerygma in which we find the ultimate meaning of our
interpersonal relationship."

And Jesus said, "What?"