A post from "Jesusland"

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by David

Apparently, you're part of a dwindling minority. The typical evangelical Christian forcefeeds his faith, his politics & his values down everyone else's throat. All of us nonbelievers have directly experienced this -- too many times to count. To quote the great Anna Russell, we're NOT making this up, you know!

If the evangelicals could arrange it, TV programming would consist of nothing but shows like "Touched By An Angel." What a bland world it would be, indeed. I lob broadsides at the Bible Brigade -- the Basic Minimum Christianists of various stripes -- whenever I can, & I offer no apologies for it. As a group, they are the most meddlesome, fatuous, misinformed, self-righteously bellicose & plangently irritating of any I have ever encountered in my years of existence.

The drama critic John Simon summed it up best in an interview with Jon Winokur for his book "The Portable Curmudgeon" when asked about twice-born Christians: "It seems to me that on the whole, one birth per person is enough, & for some even that may be too much."

I don't really think I'm all that in the minorit - oh but first I'm also NOT an Evangelical Christian

I was listening to NPR shortly after the election and there was some analysis on why the religious right is gaining so much ground - they're more organized etc...it was really interesting because there IS a religious left in this country - and not really a small one - but it does span several faiths and is nowhere near as organized...

Now I still wouldn't be part of a religious left because again - I feel that religion should play no role in politics...so for that perhaps I am in the minority