Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [RELIGION][POLITICS] new directions for evangelical Christianity in America (was "more on McCain's dreamworld")

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Mike - I think that you are buying into the stereotype that all 
> > > Christians are right wing.  But I regard myself as a Christian who just 
> > > happens to be right wing, not as someone who is right wing necessarily 
> > > because he is Christian.  In other words, don't think of 
> > > non-environmentalism, capitalism, or support for the Iraq War as 
> > > Christian values, but as right wing values.  I also have pointed my my 
> > > versions of Cizik (Wilberforce, Malik, etc), and I think that my 
> > > examples are just as valid as yours.
> >
> > I don't think Christians are right wing - it's the Evangelical Christians 
> > who are right wing.  I don't like what they've been doing lately.  I hope 
> > Cizik has a lot of influence.
>
> s/Evangelical Christians/most American Evangelical Christians/

OK, but they have organizations and the leadership in those organizations 
pushes the so-called conservative agenda on the followers.  Cizik is in a 
leadership position (Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the 
National Association of Evangelicals) and he has a big fight on his hands.

Mike

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