Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Shane Taylor wrote:
>
>> You make a persuasive case why liberal Christian's do not rush to the
>> side of the secular left, and that European anti-clericalism is
>> self-destructive for the American left. Yet, why don't liberal
>> Christians do more for their own side, for their own sake?
>
> And our lack of support is not an accident. We don't support them
> because we have a fundamental, instinctive aversion to them. We
> regard them as somewhere between deluded, weak sisters and traitors.
> Until we change that idea -- until we really understand that they are
> the only ones who can help us in both in the short and long terms --
> not only the only ones who can help us win elections, but the only
> ones who can turn back the fundamentalist movement by changing its
> worldview -- the playing field will not change. And they won't enter it.
>
> And the path to embracing such practical conclusions is realizing that
> this is really what accords with our principles. That our enemy is
> intolerance, not religion. And that it can't be both.
Great post! Great sense.
Joanna