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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2009, 03:34:52 AM » |
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Interesting. I've never met any liberal Christians who are exclusivist in this way, but it doesn't surprise me to hear that some are. Probably a number of liberal Christians were former fundies who lost those particular committments but didn't lose the proclivity to find those who don't believe what they do sinful. I think that our culture has been infected from the beginiing with a kind of intellectual and spiritual puritanism, and no matter what Americans happen to think or value, they often believe those who believe and value other things than they do are condemnable, contemptable or should be banned or marginalized from society in one way or another. For people who pride ourselves on freedom and social pluralism, for people who recite the creed of "live and let live," we as Americans often don't live up that creed so well.
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