Thursday, March 24, 2011

Matthew 7:3-5

I was innocent of the online webzine Religion Dispatches till my FB friend Eliot Riffler began referencing it. Thanks loads, Eliot.

Part of RD's self-proclamation:
Partisan religious voices are all too common, but they do little to help us understand the dynamics of religion in the contemporary world. Whether dealing with fundamentalist movements at home and abroad, the purported clash of civilizations or public controversies over sexuality, immigration, and AIDS, gaining a deeper understanding of the role of religion, for good and for ill, is imperative.
So, lemme see how this works. You have to "deal" with fundamentalism and the "purported" clash of civilizations, but you transcend "partisan religious voices"? Did I get that right?

I have read not a single article in this site, with its "diversity of progressive voices", that steps out of the religious left liberal line one little bit.


One man's fundamentalism is another man's open-mindedness.

Feh.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

By proclaiming that they don't believe in Christianity, the ad for the Episcopal Church (representing the American prelate/sses in generis) says this welcome to neo-Islam: "The Episcopal Church Welcomes You."
e.r.

P.S. They signal, I guess, they wish for only a subterranean wei: "Neither do we." Nether do wei. The cave floor has been vacated for Islam.

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