RE: The Religious Right

Bob,

To put it in perspective, this is not off-topic, it goes to the very heart
of the issue. Continuously on the list there is discussion about the
political efforts of the religious right with respect to YEC/ID. What I was
addressing was the idea that the right has always been involved in this type
of political activism. I didn't think it needed additional explanation.
Therefore I made just one simple historical observation. But again I will
connect the dots for those whos eyes are not open. I am a conservative but
I do not believe in pushing a religious agenda. Seek and ye shall find. It
doesn't say look or I force it on you. Only those seeking will see God's
revelation. The religious right has and still does involve their
religiousity into their politics. To some degree this is a imperative. All
people will do so. They however tend to use religion, or should I say their
view of it, as the only means of decision making when it comes to politics.
Again this has been a continuous behaviour. The fact that the current prime
agendas are abortion and ID in school does not change their behaviour.
Unless you address the issue, their behaviour, you will never be able to win
the fight against the ID movement. And I'm sure the issue of the ID
movement is on-topic since it seems to be an all consuming topic on the
list.

Don P

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Schneider [mailto:rjschn39@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 07:45
To: donperrett@interstrenuus.com; 'Carol or John Burgeson'
Subject: Re: The Religious Right

Don,

This is getting off subject, but the Christian abolitionists who founded
Berea College in Kentucky in 1855 could hardly be called members of a
"Christian right." I think the term is anachronistic as applied to
Christians in the mid-nineteenth century. Christians ought to bring their
religious convictions to political issues; what they shouldn't be doing is
using a political party to establish one set of religious beliefs and values
as the law of the land. That's why our founders established the principle
of separation of church and state.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Perrett (E-mail)" <donperrett@theology-perspectives.net>
To: "'Carol or John Burgeson'" <burgytwo@juno.com>
Cc: "ASA Discussions (E-mail)" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:46 PM
Subject: RE: The Religious Right

> Considering that the Republican Party was founded by Christian
> abolitionists
> in Missouri, it should be no surprise that religious people have been
> involved in the policies and politics of the right. What is a surprise is
> that there are many who are not aware of the connection between the
> religious right and the Republican Party since its inception, and that
> somehow it is ok for religious people to be involved when it comes to
> issues
> such as abolition, but not when it comes to other moral issues such as
> abortion. Truth is, the left does not want any sense of morality force
> upon
> them. Understandable as that may seem, the south didn't want morality
> forced on them either when it came to slavery.
>
> Don P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> Behalf Of Carol or John Burgeson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:36
> To: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: The Religious Right
>
>
> For those interested, the paper that sparked the NYT's article on
> Evangelicalism last Sunday is at
>
> http://www.swp-berlin.org/common/get_document.php?id=1080
>
> It is by John C. Green.
>
> The interesting thing to me is that from it one apparently can get a
> count of how many anti-evolution folks there are in the USA. YECs would
> be, of course, a sub set of these.
>
>
> Burgy
>
>
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 20 23:45:53 2006