May 20 2005
Democracy in Thought
Often, when talking with my Mother, old church friends, or anyone else who doesn’t understand what I’m thinking/believing/doing in terms of being a Christian, I tend to feel like anyone who doesn’t believe/hold/toe the Orthodox line of Christianity (whatever THAT is) is a dissenter, a heretic, even a non-believer. And those feelings arise just from the Pentecostal background that I left 12-18 months ago. Now, take into account standard American evangelical Christianity and you get an even LARGER version of “If you’re not with us, you’re against us.” And from there, look at American political/social life where our President has even declared such, saying that, if you don’t totally agree with what the government is doing, then you’re unpatriotic, unAmerican, and a generally bad person all the way around.
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