Is there a "Christian Left?"?

Question

I would say I am part of this movement. I think there really should be a "Christian left." Why? There are many strong, practicing christians that tend to vote democrat. Just seing if anyone out there agrees with me?

Answer 1

Well, I wouldn't call myself a liberal --- though there are some issues I'm liberal about (environment, poverty/fiscal issues). There are also some issues I'm conservative about (abortion). I'm currently registered independent, but I think I'd have to have a *very* well cooked hat to eat (read: fried and buttered) before I'd vote Republican. I do vote Democrat and have for years.

Unfortunately, many will tell you that you can't be both a democrat and a Christian who is conservative theologically. Well, then I guess I don't exist. ;) I'm about as theologically conservative as you can get, and I consider myself quite the bleeding heart as well. :)

Answer 2

I think there is a much a Christian Left as a Christian Right. It is just that the current political cliamte has allowed the right to hijack religion in general, al Qaida with Islam and the Conservative Christian do-gooers and Bushies with Christianity.

On Wikipedia I read an interesting article on Christian Communism, a concept that thanks to McCarthy and our modern day McCarthys: Bill O'Reilly, Karl Rove, and Pat Robertson, is something you don't even think about anymore. But if you consider that Jesus taught to share his possessions then the basis if Christianity is very much left wing.

Christians are starting to see that our environment is in peril and that the rich are getting richer. Anyone with their eyes open will see that the Republicans support the conservative factions of Christianity because it gets them votes from those that want to ram their beliefs down everyone else's throats. How Christian is it to start an unjustified war, screw the poor to line the pockets of your supporters, and leave the world in terrible shape environmentally and politically because it is better for your pocketbook and your party? There is a lot more to Christianity than which side of Roe v Wade you are on. Once people finally wake up to this we'll all be better off, Christians and everyone else, religious or not.

Answer 3

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what are you selling that can not be bought,
we are of the flesh and hell if we do not have and come from the same local..
you speak so well in expressing your self's..
about tradition and leaders and the head of the table
and then you turn around and eat a free bird and think
he does not teach you a lesson.
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Man whom aims to become what ever as in this life.
Don't waste your TIME IN argument we have enough poverty
in the mind as is watch that guy AIM RIGHT IN THE NET
the real Goal THEY ARE TWO parties as TWO teams
AND DID YOU EVER THINK it takes but [one] to win
from both teams
strange this has been going on as if a joke
as at the long run it is all but CONFUSION,on your part
Some things can not change in life
but did you ever think that what goes around you
could be based on fraternity world wide its called HISTORY
AS ALL THE REST AS WAR IS DEGRADING.
with the need of STUPIDITY.
AS IF NOT FOR THAT VOTE..THERE WOULD NT EVEN BE
A POPULARITY AND GUESS WHO
want to argue that too..COME ON..
if you must leave the KING QUEEN & POPE and TRADITIONS alone.. dammed should had open a
school of all inclusive in the Moon..!!!

Answer 4

There certainly is. There is nothing stopping a reasonable Christian from:

Stewardship of God's creation (environmentalism)
Feminism (women are people, equal under God)
Animal rights (compassion toward all living beings)
Concern over poverty (charity)

What your proposed "Christian Left" lacks is a particular organizational structure and something that sets apart a "Christian Left" member from an average Democrat. The Christian Right is one individual wing of the current makeup of the Republican party, along with neocons and libertarians.

Answer 5

There most certainly is a Christian Left. I would recommend you read up on Jim Wallis, an evangelical minister who has tried to forge a Christian "third way" in American politics. The name of his most recent book is reflective of his goal: "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It." His organization publishes a magazine called Sojourners. Check it out!

Answer 6

There is definitely a "Christian Left". However, since they tend not to be hateful, bigoted, and obnoxious, you don't ever hear about them. So, this generally leaves the impression that there are only right-wing christians. Also, unlike the "religious right" the more liberal christians haven't really organized into unified political movement. The liberal christians tend to just support certain issues without having to mix their religious beliefs into them.

The christian right has basically taken their religious ideas and made those ideas political issues in and of themselves. The more liberal christians don't tend to be stupid enough to want to expose their faiths to political attacks, so they keep them private.

Answer 7

There certainly is, and it's starting to take Christian discourse back from the evangelical Right. The narrow focus on personal "morality" (abortion, gay marriage) is giving political way to a more general concern about destructive foreign policy, the environment, and the crumbling social safety net. Here are just a few web sites:

Answer 8

They are not organized like the right wing Christians have become, but our last 2 Democrat Presidents (Carter and Clinton) are left of center.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

there probably is a group like the one you mention, but unlike those on the right, many democrats tend to be less prone to run off and form organizations as Cowboy philosopher Will Rogers once said "I am not a member of any organized political party ... I am a Democrat!"