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You Need to Take the Religious Left Seriously This Time
Politico ^ | 2/25/21 | Zack Stanton

Posted on 04/13/2024 6:41:55 PM PDT by DallasBiff

For generations, American politics has been defined by the outsize influence of Christian conservatives, so much so that the intersection of religion and politics is often treated as the sole province of white evangelicals. And for generations, promises of a rising “religious left” have come and gone without any lasting political imprint.

But to look at America’s religious left at this moment is to see something genuinely different. Places of worship are participating in demonstrations for civil rights larger than any protest movement in American history. Democrats like the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Joe Biden—political leaders whose faith isn’t just incidental to their public personas, but is a core component of both their identities and their appeal to voters—are staging important victories. The National Congregations Study, an annual survey of America’s places of worship, found 41 percent of self-identified liberal congregations lobbied or marched about immigration in 2018–19; in 2012, it was only 5 percent. Long locked out of power, a growing religious left is pounding on the door. And it has the potential to remake not only American politics, but the way we think about big questions of fairness, justice and what Americans owe to one another.

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I know from 3 years ago.

Sounds like the current Pope.

Born and raised Catholic, grew up with John Paul II, Gawd we need another Pope like him.

Flame away.

1 posted on 04/13/2024 6:41:55 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Only the Left campaigns in churches as a matter of course.


2 posted on 04/13/2024 6:50:59 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DallasBiff
Joe Biden—political leaders whose faith isn’t just incidental to their public personas, but is a core component of both their identities and their appeal to voters.

This part was really confusing to me. This "Joe Biden" is he a friend of the author or something?

Either way, I completely agree with you on JPII. We desperately need a Catholic Pope again.

3 posted on 04/13/2024 7:00:32 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: DallasBiff

“and what Americans owe to one another.”

I don’t owe you a GD thing.

L


4 posted on 04/13/2024 7:08:06 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: End Times Sentinel
This "pope" serves another master. Fr. Malachi Martin's The Keys of This Blood does an outstanding job of exposing the rot that has crept into Western Catholocism. He recognized Gramsci's role in perpetuating that rot.
5 posted on 04/13/2024 7:11:05 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Lurker

Take them seriously? I’d rather take them at gunpoint.


6 posted on 04/13/2024 7:17:21 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: DallasBiff

Libtardism is their religion and god


7 posted on 04/13/2024 7:19:04 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NWFree

Religious Left is a self contradiction.


8 posted on 04/13/2024 7:26:14 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Gd)
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To: DallasBiff
Looks to me like the politicization of religions is where the 'progressives' are pre-positioning themselves for the next attack on Middle America and the First Amendment.

They appear to be misinterpreting the first ten words of the amendment and planning to ignore the next six.

Don't have to read more than the first three pages of this https://lawrightsreligion.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Images/Section%20II%20Whose%20Faith%20Matters%2012.12.19.pdf

to recognize that.

9 posted on 04/13/2024 7:33:49 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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To: arthurus

That’s right, you can either be a true Bible believing Christian or you can discard what the Bible says in order to appease the worldliness of the unbelievers, but not both.


10 posted on 04/13/2024 7:38:43 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: NWFree

They worship at the alter of the devil.


11 posted on 04/13/2024 7:39:09 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DallasBiff
"You Need to Take the Religious Left Seriously This Time"


12 posted on 04/13/2024 7:46:04 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: clearcarbon

If you look closely enough, you can see Nadler the penguin 🐧 not kneeling.


13 posted on 04/13/2024 7:52:03 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t think so. These people have been voting Democrat for 30 years. They have their causes, but the cause isn’t being on the religious left. It’s something else: race, abortion, climate, LGBTQ. They’ve been around for a while, and they aren’t bringing anything new to politics now.


14 posted on 04/13/2024 7:54:12 PM PDT by x
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To: No name given
"If you look closely enough, you can see Nadler the penguin 🐧 not kneeling."


15 posted on 04/13/2024 7:56:15 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: DallasBiff

The great falling away and the rise of lawlessness and hatred of the God of the bible.


16 posted on 04/13/2024 8:08:16 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DallasBiff

They are not Christians. They are cult members. They twist the OT and NT into knots to fit their lifestyles.

The Left needs to take God seriously. Simply faking it to appear as a Christian for everyone to see doesn’t work with God. This is matter between you and God. The Bible hasn’t changed, nor the writings - only the type of liars who think they are able to confuse God with their lies and illogic.

The unReligous Left are responsible for this Hell on Earth.


17 posted on 04/13/2024 8:15:30 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: No name given

“If you look closely enough, you can see Nadler the penguin 🐧 not kneeling.”
_________________________________

As a rejector of Jesus as the Savior he is first doomed.

As neither warm-nor-cold he would be doomed.

So many believe if they don’t make a stand or firm decision they are safe... false teaching.


18 posted on 04/13/2024 8:31:36 PM PDT by Notthereyet (NotThereYet. )
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To: No name given

19 posted on 04/13/2024 10:25:44 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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