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Sam1

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2. It is not just liberal Christians.

Reply to turtlerescue1 (Original post)

Tue Jul 31, 2012, 05:56 PM

Jul 2012

It is the whole liberal class that has died or given up because of the "perpetual war" that has been going on since WWI. Justice and freedom, the concerns of the liberal, receive short shift during war time. To support them is to be seen as soft and soft doesn't "win" wars. So the business of liberals was marginalized and the class died or sold out.

Also he feels that the liberal class has either sold out to the corporate state or retreated in to relative comfort in ineffective think tanks.

The first chapter of his book "Death of the Liberal Class" lays it out very clearly.

My world centered around what is familiar and common and safe, works fine. The truth is the Creator I believe in has literally sustained me much more than once. Once after a series of this amazing "coincidences" I asked a fellow Christian: Is this something we're supposed to get used to? She grinned and said "Of course." DUH?

This doesn't sound very liberal to me. Are you LCMS or ELCA? I doubt that you are Wisconsin.

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