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Originally Posted by timmgirvan
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I actually enjoyed reading the Rabbi's take on things. It spurred me to spend my first hour here at work today searching for articles on both sides of the sort of "Christians-say-America-hates-them-while-liberals-say-the-Christian-Right-is-ruining-America" debate.
The one I liked the best was this one from Harper's which regardless of any politicking involved, is one hell of a magazine -- one that I greatly respect.
I just found this article interesting in the way it dissected how so many of the messages that our 'Christian Nation' sends out are so surprisingly un-Christian.
I don't think it's an inflammatory article in the least -- but a good read given the context of the original post. It sort of made me think both ways about this notion of protecting the Christian Nation, when the Nation isn't even all that Christian most of the time to begin with:
http://www.harpers.org/ExcerptTheChristianParadox.html