Christian Liberals & Progressive People of Faith

I took one thing away from there that still tickles my funny bone.

THEY (the right wing fanatics who use God and the Bible as an excuse to persecute others) are ONLY the "right wing".
WE (rational Christians who will share our faith, but mostly are busy keeping our own noses clean) ARE THE REST OF THE BIRD.


I've also met a lot of good NON-Christian people who live the Christian values I believe in because they believe in humanitarianism or social justice or any other terminology that works. What I have heard from even-tempered atheists is that it galls them to be told that having a moral compass is a "Christian" thing because they view morals as seperate from the package that we have in our faith. It's where I got MINE, but hey, it isn't something we own and when I concede that specific point, I can get to the stuff we can agree about.

I feel like a lot of the things that we Christians learned in the Eccumenical Movement are helpful here. Even Christians disagree on so many points and have had to learn to relate to one another with out judging the person by the whole theology of that person's Church.

I was raised Catholic, but was stridently against priests and bishops telling people from the pulpit that if they voted for John Kerry it was a sin and they couldn't take communion. I think seperation of Church and State protects both.

Tig