Reply #104: Hi, BeTheChange -- I'm sorry that you've felt alienated...

[I Have A Dream]

by some of the reactions to religion here. Please don't give up on DU. Some of us are just tired of having "religious" people continuously try to take away what we consider to be our rights. It's easy to consider all religious people to be the same, even though this absolutely is not true.

My senator is Santorum, and he says that the Constitution doesn't even guarantee our right to birth control. It's stuff like this that makes me just recoil when I think of religion now. We're not even talking abortion here -- this is contraception!

I absolutely believe what you say about the need for a democratic group of Christians trying to change the way Christianity is being contorted. I also don't know how we make progress in this area since the Religious Right's churches do everything they can to control what its people think. If the Powers That Be in these churches don't want change to occur, they'll just say that Satan is involved in the attempts to change things.

Several members of my family are Evangelical Christians, so I know that there are many, many good people in these groups. I just don't know how to reach them. (I've had some success with my family, but it's been hard, and they often cringe when they realize that I'm starting another discussion about these issues.)