Christian love

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Kelley Walker wrote:
>
>>that's not what was said. what was said that it wasn't surprising 
>>that X happened and that's because christianity is 
>>sado-masochistic. that's making one big grand stereotyping 
>>explanatory statment that has little evidence to support the 
>>assertion.
>>
>>i call that bigoted thinking. worse, it's bigoted because it 
>>authorized itself by appeal to a discourse that is supposed to be 
>>taken seriously because it calls itself scholarship.
>
>So there's no consistency to the various doctrines that have called 
>themselves Christian over the centuries? There are only many plural 
>Christianities?
>
>Doug

A good number of Christians have more in common with us than with 
fundamentalist ones, & that's what fundies can't stand. 
Fundamentalism is a reaction not so much against us irreligious 
leftists (alas an insignificant minority in the States) as against 
the tendency toward ecumenism, liberalism, historicism, secularism, 
feminism, etc. _within_ mainline Protestant denominations.  That is 
why fundamentalism is more common here in the USA where the 
irreligious Left has the weakest presence than in Europe where the 
irreligious Left is still in good shape.

Yoshie