Among the organizations endorsing the march were the Communist Party USA, the United Church of Christ, Jewish Funds for Justice, the National Urban League, the National Baptist Convention, People for the American Way and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n
The United Church of Christ and the Communist Party USA? Now, imagine if during some Tea Party or Glen Beck rally there had been Fundamentalist Baptists and the American Nazi party. You think that would rate a mere side reference in the middle paragraph of a news story? Or would that be headline news, with hours of discussion, debate, and argument about the evils behind the Right? <\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Why so tolerant of an ideology that, to date, has killed more than were killed in WWI and WWII combined? Why would Christian Churches throw their lot in with such a movement, and do so uncritically<\/span>? Because in the end, the Left has been far less willing to reject its extremes than the Right. Have a racist sign at a rally or a Nazi group show up, and those on the Right will fall over themselves to condemn it and distance themselves from it. But not so on the Left. Even today, the approach<\/span> to communist states like the USSR and China is \u2018well sure, there was some bad, but let\u2019s not be hasty in our condemnation.\u2019 <\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
Part of this is because Communism did not slaughter millions for racial reasons. And racism is America\u2019s singular sin. If we did anything wrong, we imagine it had to do with race. If it doesn\u2019t have to do with race, we imagine it wasn\u2019t that bad after all. Second, quite frankly many on the Left haven\u2019t given<\/span> up on some of the ideals of Communism, and so are loathe to sweep it all into the trashcan of history. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
That hyper liberal denominations like the UCC<\/span><\/span> would stand along side such a murderous ideology shows the willingness of the Left \u2013 including the Christian left \u2013 to tolerate anything that isn\u2019t born of the Traditional Christian West. It also demonstrates<\/span> the main reason why you hear so little of the Religious Left in modern political discourse. Ultimately, liberal Christianity is a follower, letting the secular Left lead where it will go, and following like the obedient lapdog that it has become. But that\u2019s for another post. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times has a brief rundown of the liberal march on Washington over the weekend. Among those who endorsed the march were: Among the organizations endorsing the march were the Communist Party USA, the United Church of Christ, Jewish Funds for Justice, the National Urban League, the National Baptist Convention, People for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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