See, this is part of the problem I have, and I can't help but wonder if I'm not alone in this: I've heard of most of the groups you mention, but I've seen absolutely nothing about them in the press in the last few years. I don't even know who Dorothy Day is, let alone her "type." But there's always, always another crazy screaming on the news that he and only he knows what Jesus really wants us to do to the {fill in: hated group du jour} -- and it always involves fear, loathing, and harming those who are unlike us.
If I hadn't actually read the New Testament and talked to folks I consider to be genuinely trying to follow Christ (as opposed to those who simply label themselves christian), I'd only have the word of the "dominionists" as to what the christian religion was about. Frankly, if they were the only ones who got to define what christianity truly was, it would be almost -- almost -- as bloodthirsty and reprehensible a religion as the Aztec human sacrificers -- and I know I'd be horrified if that happened to my personal belief system.
So yes, I think it's incredibly important that people like Velvetpage get to speak up and be heard as to what christianity truly is. It's their religion -- not the religion of frightened and insecure sick people, you know?
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Date: 2006-10-15 12:54 am (UTC)If I hadn't actually read the New Testament and talked to folks I consider to be genuinely trying to follow Christ (as opposed to those who simply label themselves christian), I'd only have the word of the "dominionists" as to what the christian religion was about. Frankly, if they were the only ones who got to define what christianity truly was, it would be almost -- almost -- as bloodthirsty and reprehensible a religion as the Aztec human sacrificers -- and I know I'd be horrified if that happened to my personal belief system.
So yes, I think it's incredibly important that people like Velvetpage get to speak up and be heard as to what christianity truly is. It's their religion -- not the religion of frightened and insecure sick people, you know?