Why I Left the Right: How Studying Religion Made Me a Liberal

the religious right is no match for the liberal religion. The left's religion tells people what to do, buy, drive, how to live, how much they can make, what to eat, where to send your kids to school,etc...
Where do you get this shit from?


if this is a serious question, its not worth my time.
You think the left represents extreme socialism? If yes, It's sad how out of touch you are

What's the difference between democrats and socialists?
An over simplified version would be Democrates are capitalists who want the governement to use its resources help provide for those in need. Republicans aren't much different just want to spend on military instead of welfare. Socialism is a completely different ideology that represents full government control over the people.
 
the religious right is no match for the liberal religion. The left's religion tells people what to do, buy, drive, how to live, how much they can make, what to eat, where to send your kids to school,etc...
Where do you get this shit from?


if this is a serious question, its not worth my time.
You think the left represents extreme socialism? If yes, It's sad how out of touch you are

What's the difference between democrats and socialists?
An over simplified version would be Democrates are capitalists who want the governement to use its resources help provide for those in need. Republicans aren't much different just want to spend on military instead of welfare. Socialism is a completely different ideology that represents full government control over the people.

Oversimplified version? Sounds more some bullshit being thrown out there to muddy up the water.
 
"My journey from Young Republican to less young Democrat did not come from a crisis of faith, it came from finding inspiration in the life of Jesus. Once I removed the dogmatic lens that had informed my biblical interpretations, I found a figure that defended a prostitute and ate with the poor. The life of Jesus simply didn't reflect the agenda of the political right, so now neither could I."

What's telling about this is that a little over 40 years ago such a decision would not have been necessary, this was a time when conservatism could be reconciled with Christian dogma, unlike today.

And of course all the moral norms are exactly like they were 40 years ago, right? Absolutely nothing has happened to make conservatives and religious people think this country is going to hell. Damn you're one stupid SOB.
 
Where do you get this shit from?

if this is a serious question, its not worth my time.
You think the left represents extreme socialism? If yes, It's sad how out of touch you are

What's the difference between democrats and socialists?
An over simplified version would be Democrates are capitalists who want the governement to use its resources help provide for those in need. Republicans aren't much different just want to spend on military instead of welfare. Socialism is a completely different ideology that represents full government control over the people.

Oversimplified version? Sounds more some bullshit being thrown out there to muddy up the water.
Nice intelligent response... Where am I wrong?
 
the religious right is no match for the liberal religion. The left's religion tells people what to do, buy, drive, how to live, how much they can make, what to eat, where to send your kids to school,etc...
Where do you get this shit from?


if this is a serious question, its not worth my time.
You think the left represents extreme socialism? If yes, It's sad how out of touch you are

What's the difference between democrats and socialists?
An over simplified version would be Democrates are capitalists who want the governement to use its resources help provide for those in need. Republicans aren't much different just want to spend on military instead of welfare. Socialism is a completely different ideology that represents full government control over the people.

The government has no resources, they consume resources.
 
so she joined liberals?

a group of people with no morals at all?

:rofl:


seems she really wants that fame
It's liberals that stand up for the poor, the elderly, the sick and the children. It's cons that try to throw them all out in the street.
On judgement day Jesus will say "I was hungry and you didn't feed me, I was thirsty and you didn't give me drink, I was naked and you didn't cloth me." And the cons will ask when they did that. And Jesus will say, "When you cut Social Security, food stamps, healthcare, and aid to the poor"

You call being greed, having morals. BWAH HA HA HA HA!

Jesus will tell you he is a liberal on judgement day.....
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:35-40 - New International Version

So what your saying is you regressives have a Robin Hood complex, the Bible calls people like you thieves.
This is way over your head..just keep playing in the sandbox.
 
the religious right is no match for the liberal religion. The left's religion tells people what to do, buy, drive, how to live, how much they can make, what to eat, where to send your kids to school,etc...
Where do you get this shit from?


if this is a serious question, its not worth my time.
You think the left represents extreme socialism? If yes, It's sad how out of touch you are

What's the difference between democrats and socialists?
An over simplified version would be Democrates are capitalists who want the governement to use its resources help provide for those in need. Republicans aren't much different just want to spend on military instead of welfare. Socialism is a completely different ideology that represents full government control over the people.
And yet the current leading candidate for the democrat party is a self proclaimed socialist.
 
so she joined liberals?

a group of people with no morals at all?

:rofl:


seems she really wants that fame
It's liberals that stand up for the poor, the elderly, the sick and the children. It's cons that try to throw them all out in the street.
On judgement day Jesus will say "I was hungry and you didn't feed me, I was thirsty and you didn't give me drink, I was naked and you didn't cloth me." And the cons will ask when they did that. And Jesus will say, "When you cut Social Security, food stamps, healthcare, and aid to the poor"

You call being greed, having morals. BWAH HA HA HA HA!

Jesus will tell you he is a liberal on judgement day.....
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:35-40 - New International Version

So what your saying is you regressives have a Robin Hood complex, the Bible calls people like you thieves.
This is way over your head..just keep playing in the sandbox.

Still a coward I see. Jesus taught personal responsibility, as in using your own resources to help others, not steal the resources of others to do it.
 
so she joined liberals?

a group of people with no morals at all?

:rofl:


seems she really wants that fame
It's liberals that stand up for the poor, the elderly, the sick and the children. It's cons that try to throw them all out in the street.
On judgement day Jesus will say "I was hungry and you didn't feed me, I was thirsty and you didn't give me drink, I was naked and you didn't cloth me." And the cons will ask when they did that. And Jesus will say, "When you cut Social Security, food stamps, healthcare, and aid to the poor"

You call being greed, having morals. BWAH HA HA HA HA!

Jesus will tell you he is a liberal on judgement day.....
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:35-40 - New International Version

So what your saying is you regressives have a Robin Hood complex, the Bible calls people like you thieves.
This is way over your head..just keep playing in the sandbox.

Still a coward I see. Jesus taught personal responsibility, as in using your own resources to help others, not steal the resources of others to do it.
Tell us, should a Christian worry about, or even care about, money?
 
if this is a serious question, its not worth my time.
You think the left represents extreme socialism? If yes, It's sad how out of touch you are

What's the difference between democrats and socialists?
An over simplified version would be Democrates are capitalists who want the governement to use its resources help provide for those in need. Republicans aren't much different just want to spend on military instead of welfare. Socialism is a completely different ideology that represents full government control over the people.

Oversimplified version? Sounds more some bullshit being thrown out there to muddy up the water.
Nice intelligent response... Where am I wrong?

What's the difference between the democrats and socialism?
 
so she joined liberals?

a group of people with no morals at all?

:rofl:


seems she really wants that fame
It's liberals that stand up for the poor, the elderly, the sick and the children. It's cons that try to throw them all out in the street.
On judgement day Jesus will say "I was hungry and you didn't feed me, I was thirsty and you didn't give me drink, I was naked and you didn't cloth me." And the cons will ask when they did that. And Jesus will say, "When you cut Social Security, food stamps, healthcare, and aid to the poor"

You call being greed, having morals. BWAH HA HA HA HA!

Jesus will tell you he is a liberal on judgement day.....
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:35-40 - New International Version

So what your saying is you regressives have a Robin Hood complex, the Bible calls people like you thieves.
This is way over your head..just keep playing in the sandbox.

Still a coward I see. Jesus taught personal responsibility, as in using your own resources to help others, not steal the resources of others to do it.
Tell us, should a Christian worry about, or even care about, money?

The Bible says people should work for a living.
 
It's liberals that stand up for the poor, the elderly, the sick and the children. It's cons that try to throw them all out in the street.
On judgement day Jesus will say "I was hungry and you didn't feed me, I was thirsty and you didn't give me drink, I was naked and you didn't cloth me." And the cons will ask when they did that. And Jesus will say, "When you cut Social Security, food stamps, healthcare, and aid to the poor"

You call being greed, having morals. BWAH HA HA HA HA!

Jesus will tell you he is a liberal on judgement day.....
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:35-40 - New International Version

So what your saying is you regressives have a Robin Hood complex, the Bible calls people like you thieves.
This is way over your head..just keep playing in the sandbox.

Still a coward I see. Jesus taught personal responsibility, as in using your own resources to help others, not steal the resources of others to do it.
Tell us, should a Christian worry about, or even care about, money?

The Bible says people should work for a living.
Paul says that but does it say to worry about money, or taxes, or build up earthly wealth?
 
so she joined liberals?

a group of people with no morals at all?

:rofl:


seems she really wants that fame
It's liberals that stand up for the poor, the elderly, the sick and the children. It's cons that try to throw them all out in the street.
On judgement day Jesus will say "I was hungry and you didn't feed me, I was thirsty and you didn't give me drink, I was naked and you didn't cloth me." And the cons will ask when they did that. And Jesus will say, "When you cut Social Security, food stamps, healthcare, and aid to the poor"

You call being greed, having morals. BWAH HA HA HA HA!

Jesus will tell you he is a liberal on judgement day.....
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:35-40 - New International Version

So what your saying is you regressives have a Robin Hood complex, the Bible calls people like you thieves.
This is way over your head..just keep playing in the sandbox.

Still a coward I see. Jesus taught personal responsibility, as in using your own resources to help others, not steal the resources of others to do it.
Tell us, should a Christian worry about, or even care about, money?

Absolutely, how else could you take care of yourself and your family?
 
My faith has also led me to believe today's Gnu Right is way off the biblical reservation. I see nothing but hypocrisy there any more.

However, it makes absolutely no sense to me to run into the arms of the Democratic Party over this horrific transformation which has made the GOP into a pack of wild animals. The Democratic Party is just as antithetical to religion as the modern GOP is, except it has been undermining religion a lot longer.

The author of the OP piece should stay in the Republican Party and fight the good fight. If you let the assholes run you off, they win, and the Party loses.

I actually feel inclined to be less and less engaged in politics as my faith grows and matures. Politics is about worldly power, and that is all the modern Republican/"conservative" cares about these days. And they will do or say anything to get that material power, including paying lip service to the bible, which I can tell many of them have never read. They certainly don't attend church regularly, or help those in need in their communities.
 
So what your saying is you regressives have a Robin Hood complex, the Bible calls people like you thieves.
This is way over your head..just keep playing in the sandbox.

Still a coward I see. Jesus taught personal responsibility, as in using your own resources to help others, not steal the resources of others to do it.
Tell us, should a Christian worry about, or even care about, money?

The Bible says people should work for a living.
Paul says that but does it say to worry about money, or taxes, or build up earthly wealth?

What happens when you work to make a living?
 
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It was January 20, 2001, and I was at George W. Bush's inaugural ball. I had spent months campaigning for him, and it had not been easy. After the Florida electoral debacle complete with "hanging chads," Katherine Harris (and her 15 minutes of shame), and ultimately the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore decision, I was finally enjoying the fruits of my labor as I celebrated the new president that I worked to get elected.

Sure, my role in the campaign wasn't glamorous, but I was a 20-year-old political science, religious studies double major who saw this election as the beginning of my work for the Right. I had recently appeared on MTV's reality show, Road Rules, where I represented the worldview of conservative evangelicals in all its virginal, Christian glory in a very public way. Now I wanted to turn my moment in the spotlight into something meaningful.

During the campaign, I attended Young Republican meetings, drove Bush's trusted advisors, Andrew Card and Karen Hughes, in the motorcade when they came to town, and now I was working the inaugural ball as the celebrity handler for special guest, Drew Carey. During the evening, he admitted that he wasn't actually a Republican, but a libertarian.

"Good enough," I thought to myself, "As long as he isn't one of 'those liberals.'"

I believed my involvement in the campaign was just the beginning of my efforts to promote the conservative movement and perhaps my own career as well.

Growing up immersed in the evangelical community, I was so familiar with the Christian rhetoric and worldview that it never occurred to me that they might be getting it all wrong. During the late eighties and throughout the nineties, evangelicalism hit its stride in terms of communicating and promoting a very specific message that amounted to a chorus of sound bites about "family values," militarism, and the pro-life movement. The group's unified theological positioning inspired the mobilization of American evangelical voters and influenced countless election results.

"The very thing that inspired my conservatism, would now be the thing that caused it to topple: my faith."

As I stood there in my purple satin, floor-length gown and then-in-style white eye shadow watching the new President dance with his First Lady, I was inspired by what I thought was a going to be a move toward increased personal responsibility, a shift from the distracting Clinton/Lewinsky circus, and a return to the philosophy of the patron saint of right-wing politics, Ronald Reagan. What I didn't realize was that I soon would become one of "those liberals," and that the very thing that inspired my conservatism, would now be the thing that caused it to topple: my faith.

I was more than just your garden variety Christian; I attended church several times a week, sought guidance from my pastor in private meetings, and after my reality TV stardom, spoke to church youth groups about how to stay "pure" in this "sinful" world. As I began studying religion at the University of Pittsburgh, people in the church warned me about what could happen under the influence of the liberal intelligentsia.

The bias of "godless liberals" teaching at universities was reason enough to avoid traditional education. I believed them when they said academia skewed to the left, but surely a faith as strong as mine could stand up to academic scrutiny.

What happened, however, wasn't an abandonment of my faith, but a shift in my understanding of Scripture. While I had always read the Bible and knew large portions of it by memory, I had relied on the expertise of my religious mentors (some of whom were simply laypeople teaching Sunday School or Christian education classes) to help guide me through its interpretation.

The more I read the text through unfiltered eyes and the more I learned about scholarly investigation, the less sense their point of view made. Their old Jesus looked nothing like my new Jesus.

I could no longer reconcile Jesus's calls for non-judgment, loving your enemies, and taking up your cross with many of the Religious Right's positions on social services, women's rights and the LGBT community. Even though I felt alone in my theological shift, I was not.

My journey from Young Republican to less young Democrat did not come from a crisis of faith, it came from finding inspiration in the life of Jesus. Once I removed the dogmatic lens that had informed my biblical interpretations, I found a figure that defended a prostitute and ate with the poor. The life of Jesus simply didn't reflect the agenda of the political right, so now neither could I.

More: Why I Left the Right: How Studying Religion Made Me a Liberal - By Susie Meister, PhD in Religious Studies, Host of The Brain Candy Podcast

This is a good article that also reflects my personal observations growing up around many others from the religious right.
Because you're a fake and a moron...
Lol
 
"My journey from Young Republican to less young Democrat did not come from a crisis of faith, it came from finding inspiration in the life of Jesus. Once I removed the dogmatic lens that had informed my biblical interpretations, I found a figure that defended a prostitute and ate with the poor. The life of Jesus simply didn't reflect the agenda of the political right, so now neither could I."

What's telling about this is that a little over 40 years ago such a decision would not have been necessary, this was a time when conservatism could be reconciled with Christian dogma, unlike today.
Socialism-IS-for-the-Lazy-amongst-you.jpg
 
the religious right is no match for the liberal religion. The left's religion tells people what to do, buy, drive, how to live, how much they can make, what to eat, where to send your kids to school,etc...
Where do you get this shit from?


if this is a serious question, its not worth my time.
You think the left represents extreme socialism? If yes, It's sad how out of touch you are

What's the difference between democrats and socialists?
Zero
 

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