The Right's strategy has been to paper over schisms within Christianity and incorporate Jews into a new virtual corporation called "the Judeo-Christian Tradition," whether Jews like it or not, making it seem as if they were the majority.
Our strategy is to reverse it: divide and conquer. Jewish activists and intellectuals on the left, whenever they hear anyone say "our Judeo-Christian values" or some such nonsense, ought to raise their eyebrows as archly as possible and loudly inquire about the fate of Jews upon the Rapture and other matters that put the first person plural into question. Mainline Protestants, Catholics, and Blacks should begin to adopt and propagate new usage: proudly reserve the terms "Christians" and "Christianity" for themselves, and consistently and insistently use the terms "Christianists," "Political Christians," "Christianism," and "Political Christianity" to refer to their enemies who claim to believe in the same religion as theirs. At the same time, expand the existing interfaith associations (e.g., <http://www.nain.org/>) linking ecumenical liberals and leftists from all faith traditions.
This is a winning strategy, if Christians on the left, who have hitherto been too nice to excommunicate theocrats, manage to stand firm and stay on message, no matter what. -- Yoshie
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