re: #30 thedopefishlives

I don’t know how much of my history you’ve read in these threads, but I’ve told the others here: My folks are hardcore evangelicals and I was raised in that culture. I used to be a hard right-winger, a rabid Rush Limbaugh listener, absolutely persuaded that abortion was the ultimate evil and that the only way to rescue America was more God. Then I went to college and got out from under the bubble, and my eyes were really opened to all sorts of stripes of moderate/liberal Christianity. Eventually my maturity caught up to me and I started to temper my beliefs and my political views. And then I found LGF and the rest is history.

I am pretty sure that, for all my mother says she is a registered Democrat, the fact that I have turned out so liberal may be somewhat of a disappointment to my parents.

Of course, I don’t think things like providing basic food to the poor and advocating every person’s right to make decisions for themselves and equality for women and gays is all that liberal, but that’s the state of the country, so…

I just see it as perfectly consistent with the example Jesus set. He did not judge, he loved. What is hard for me is the apparent cognitive dissonance between what my parents taught me and what they themselves vote into practice.