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Subject: Let them know the presence of a Liberal Christian view Author: Liberal [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 22:22:26 06/20/04 Sun In reply to: XOX 's message, "Religious Left Seeks Center of Political Debate" on 13:17:43 06/16/04 Wed Thank you very much. The situation in Hong Kong is rather mixed. While religious right (conservatives) is having a strong voice certainly, the leftist (liberal) position is also enjoying its representation here---most of the well-developed and hence wealthy mainline churches such as the Anglicans are well aware of or even incorporating liberal views to some extent. Progressive Christian organisations such as the Hong Kong Christian Institute are playing an active role in political issues of Hong Kong. Anyway, we religious liberals should continue to strengthen our public representation to let the public as well as Christians know conservative view is not the only Christian view, there is a liberal Christian view too. The most important lesson to learn is what liberals have done wrong to lose its domination in American political ecology. So these comments are especially important: //And there was no lack of hand-wringing among the conferees about what the religious left has done wrong. "Part of it is our fault. We should take back the Bible, take back the theological principles and not just cede them to the religious right," said the Rev. Susan B. Thistlethwaite, a minister in the United Church of Christ and president of the Chicago Theological Seminary. "It's not good enough to talk in vague terms about values. We can do better than that. We can make the theological arguments." Historian Taylor Branch said that in the 1970s, the abortion issue split the progressive religious alliance that had formed in the civil rights movement. Since then, the left has done no better than the right in "moving beyond polemics," he said. The Rev. Charles Henderson, a Presbyterian Church (USA) minister who publishes the interfaith quarterly CrossCurrents, said that from the 1950s through the 1970s, the mainline Protestant denominations took for granted that their values would infuse television and the public schools. Evangelicals, who felt shut out of establishment institutions, created their own schools and broadcast outlets. "Then you wake up one day in 1984 and the Christian right is dominant, and you wonder why," he said.// [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]