02.05.08
Even WORLD Admits It Now
I just thought some of you might like to know that I was recently interviewed by ultra-conservative Christian news magazine WORLD, for an article entitled “Young evangelicals leaving conservatism”. I thought the writer did a fair job of representing me and other progressive Christians, though some of the comments posted below the article are rather amusing.
At any rate, it’s encouraging that now even the mouthpieces of the Religious Right are willing to admit that they are losing my generation.
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ash said,
February 5, 2008 at 7:34 am
see, now that’s what i call active opposition…go Mike!
the commentators bothered me tho…there seemed to be a general concensus that it was ok not to vote republican purely on the basis that they were never gonna get abortions made illegal. *headdesk*
Karen said,
February 5, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Geez, and they think atheists are angry and argumentative!? That place is a doctrinal shark tank over there!
Good on you, Mike C. I thought you came across very well in that article, even though it was awfully brief. There was a lot more they could have discussed if they made the item a little more in-depth.
But were you really a Limbaugh-lover? Ugh …. say it ain’t so!
I was a tried-and-true evangelical, but I was never a political conservative. Somehow my inner independent thinker prevailed in my political judgments, if not in the area of religion, even though my mom’s family were so right-wing they were John Birchers!
HappyNat said,
February 5, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Very nice article. Good work, Mike.
Siamang said,
February 5, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Whooo… reading those comments on that thread. There’s a lot of people wanting to tear right into you for daring to be friends with Brian MacLaren, or having a different view of the Gospels, or being a progressive, or daring to think ill of religio-conservative-republicanism.
They just want to get you in the middle of a dogfight scrum, so they can pick at you for being nonbiblical, emergent, postmodern, hey just whatever they can get on you. They treat nonconformity, individuality, anti-authoritarianism as, worse than a sin… as a weakness I guess.
The only way to beat them is to get in a pissing match and try to out-Jesus them… which I notice you have either the wisdom or the serenity not to do.
I seem to remember hearing about a dude who lived about 2000 years ago who was a serious nonconformist. I wonder if they’ve ever heard of that guy.