Good to hear...

Submitted by Arcane (United States), May 19, 2006 at 20:06

Pro-Israeli Democrat,

I guess I just misinterpreted your title; my apologies.

I'm not a liberal by the American definition (a "liberal" in America would be called a "social democrat" or "socialist" in Europe, and a "liberal" in Europe would be called "libertarian" or "conservative" in America), so I recognize that we're likely to disagree on a whole mass of domestic and foreign policies. But I fear you may have pegged evangelical Christians into the wrong hole. I have friends who are evangelicals who are pro-stem-cell research and pro-genetic engineering, for example. I'm not an evangelical at all and rarely even define myself as a Christian, except in a completely nominal manner, and I, too, am worried about many of the policies that powerful evangelical lobbies are pushing for, like bans on various forms of medical research and increased federal funding of religious organizations. But please do not conflate all evangelicals with the policies of lobbies that are simply composed of evangelicals. Doing so is similar to conflating Communism with Judaism, which the Nazis did.

Evangelical Christians are roughly similar to your average moderate Muslim. Reconstructionist Christians are roughly the equivalent to radical Muslims. And the Christian Identity folks are roughly equivalent to the actual terrorist Islamists. The latter two forms of Christians have no influence in the Republican Party, most hate it, and they generally flock to hard-right political parties, like America First and the Constitution Party, or far-right political organizations, like the Aryan Nations or Chalcedon Foundation.

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