Where Are The Good Christians? Great Mark Morford

[springhill]

I know they're out there.
I forget, often, too often, just how many there are but I know they exist in much larger numbers than you might be led to believe by current spiritually embarrassing headlines and I know they are just as, if not more, passionate and healthy and deeply felt in their beliefs than the overpublicized sects of angry and frothing "true believers" screeching into the megaphone of the culture, the ones yanking BushCo's chain and pounding their Bibles and hiding their warped porn fetishes and forcing their way into our lives and laws and bedrooms right now.

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Most spiritually healthy Christians are simply living their lives, praying deeply, carefully, privately, seeing the divine all around them and choosing Jesus' teachings as the best moral compass, especially the parts about love and healing and empathy and acceptance and turning the other cheek, about how God is not some sneering angry bearded puppeteer but rather a radiant energy force inside everyone and every living thing, always, just waiting for you to tap into it. You know, just like every other religion in existence.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/04/06/notes040605.DTL&feed=rss.morford

[coloradodem2005]

1. I really wish I had seen more of them.

[MarianJack]

2. Very True, But...

...many of us are tired of being embarassed by the fundie/evangelicals, and are no longer silent.

As Burke said, All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men(people)to stand by and do nothing.

[teenagebambam]

3. Here's a good Christian

http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/worship/gfr050424.html

A sermon by Geroge Regas, who spoke two weeks ago at the National Cathedral, a haven of liberal Christian thought right in our Nation's Capitol!

[MichaelJH]

4. Well, I am about to retire and Fight the good fight.

I'm doing it everyday here in SC, I have switched around 20 people from repubs to Democrats. All we have to do is sell them on the truth; Jesus is 1000 times more a Liberal Democrat than a Repub.

I tell them to ease their Liberal bias, we have to keep a balance between to liberal and to conservative. We don't want prostitution on every corner or a Theocracy. It is working very well and I'm looking forward to doing this everyday, for the rest of my life.

I cannot sit back and watch the fanatics destroy our freedoms and rights any longer.