29 March 2004

Slashing Attacks From the Religious Left

In what may signal desperation in attempts to reach the crumbling moral high ground of his candidacy, John Kerry yesterday questioned the religious faith of his political opponents. Meanwhile, here in Seattle, liberals cheer as virulent attacks on George Bush are made from the pulpit. Ferociously partisan attacks made by so-called "mainstream" churches out for political blood. Yet they would call Mel Gibson an extremist hate monger. Such is the state of left-wing Clerics in the Protestant "Madrasas " of "Jihadist " Seattle. Fortunately there are churches in Seattle where one may find that God is Love, rather than feel the self-loathing crack of whipped-up brimstone by Liberal Fundamentalists. Hopefully the open-and-inclusive congregations won't make themselves hard to find amid the left-wing lather. Religious "fundamentalism" is defined by lack of tolerance for, and by extension - a dearth of, diversity of viewpoints. In many left-wing Seattle churches, diversity has reached the point of intellectual famine.