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Title: Revolution in Jesusland: building bridges between progressives and born-agains
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Boing Boing
URL Source: http://boingboing.net/
Published: Oct 5, 2007
Author: Boing Boing
Post Date: 2007-10-05 19:16:05 by Zipporah
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Views: 898
Comments: 3
Zack Exley, one of the smartest progressive online activists I know, has been maintaining a blog called "Revolution in Jesusland," about the evangelical resurgence, with an emphasis on bridging the gap between progressive activists and evangelicals. This is a laudable effort, and Zack's tackling it with wit, humility and a great deal of intelligence. Second (and we know how difficult this is to believe) there is an incredibly large and beautiful social movement exploding among evangelicals right now that stands for nearly all of the same causes and goals that secular progressives do. Those goals include: eliminating poverty, saving the environment, promoting justice and equality along racial, gender and class lines and for immigrants--and even separation of church and state. By learning to work together with "progressive" evangelicals, secular progressives will stand a better chance of achieving their goals and also learn an enormous amount from these remarkable people and their organizations that will help secular progressives strengthen their own movement. Poster Comment: This should get interesting
First, progressives will never achieve their goals as long as they are hostile toward and ignorant about the faith of 100 million of their own people who are born again Christians.
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
So are "secular progressives" Jewish American liberals? What am I missing here?
..people who aren't religious and liberal I suppose?
From my perspective the only reason that some "secular" [code word] progressives would bother to build bridges with the evangelical nutters is because those progressives share a common "cause" with the evangelicals and so they believe it's worth their while to engage evangelicals rather than to treat them like adversaries.
#2. To: scrapper2 (#1)
#3. To: Zipporah (#2)
..people who aren't religious and liberal I suppose?
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