[links.politics, sorta]
Nov. 15th, 2004 01:26 pm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
As someone who loves Jesus, a lot of liberals - not all of you, but enough to seriously matter - have a real problem with Him. As a liberal pragmatist, I also know damn well that we need the Jesus-lovers to vote Democrat if we want to really change power in this country. There are a lot of Catholics and Christians out there - and if you can offend me twenty times a year or so, you're certainly turning enough of them away at the door.
And I did not write about Christian-bashing because All Humans Deserve Respect And Dignity. (If I did, I would have written it at least a year ago.) I wrote about it because we lost this election big-time, and we've been losing ground for years, and I want the Democratic party to win for a change. As such, the best way to do that is to reach out to a large group of largely-abandoned voters who I believe can be swayed.
I hope that I've managed to not be particularly anti-Christian, either on or offline. I'm not _sure_ because I grew up Catholic, and have had a bit too much exposure to evangelical Christians. I can therefore entirely too easily see myself ranting about fundamentalist or evangelical Christians, if I'm not thinking about it. (I _really_ don't like being preached at, especially not if that is how someone is attempting to change the way I think about anything)
And, worthy of note - I'm not generally one who rants. And not generally one who has a habit of painting people with a large brush (due to _lots_ of practice, mind - it's difficult to remember that any large group of people is still made up of individual people...). So the fact that I'm not sure if I'm guilty of this says a lot. Certainly means I've read entirely too much of that kind of behavior of late, if nothing else.
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