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[novapsyche]

What liberal Christians in the United States should do this election year is not endorse any one particular candidate. They should express their liberalism.

John Dean notes in Conservatives Without Conscience that

Lionel Trilling, a leading voice of the left, observed in 1950 that in 'the United States at this time, liberalism is not only the dominant but the sole intellectual tradition. . . . [T]here are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation.'" Trilling, for a while, was correct. [...] The work of conservative scholars, which had commenced in the late forties, although inconsequential at first, did serve to create a foundation for modern conservatism, and a philosophy was developed from scratch. (pp. 11-12)

What has happened to American Protestantism in the last fifty years?

Why have liberal Christians kept quiet these last six years?

Comments

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

I don't know that they've been silent. I think it's more of a case that our "free press" is no longer free. I think when this crap (meaning the Bush Admin) blows over we'll find that Bush was meddling with all kinds of free speech issues that have nothing to do with terrorists. Or, to be more accurate, he labels anything that opposes his agenda as terrorist related.