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In reply to the discussion: Stripping away the distracting BS, this is what it all boils down to. (In my opinion.) [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)38. That's one of the big mistakes liberals made
We let the right wing steal religion, and allow corrupt fundamentalist pastors to CONvice too many people that Jesus was a Republican Conservative.
Liberals have been trying to play "catch up" in recent years, and say "No Jesus was a liberal." It looks phony and defensive and phony because it is trying to change a wrongheaded meme that was cunningly implanted in the public mind decades ago by the conservatives.
Maybe the current Pope can help to rectify this...But look at the flack he's getting from the fundamentalists and the CONNEDservatives.
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Stripping away the distracting BS, this is what it all boils down to. (In my opinion.) [View all]
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Jan 2014
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