Reply #31: Do consider the 29%

[mulethree]

of democrat voters who are not Christian. And then 25% or so who are Christian but rarely go to church, there are reasons they don't. And reach out to the 70% or whatever of the world who don't follow the cross.

Include some non-christians. Lamas, Rebbes, Imams, Gurus, Daoists, ancestor worshipers, Humanists, philosophers, non-pauline christians ... well anyone who is enlightened. Get the Dalai Lama and similar people to speak and the right wing will have a hard time denying that the holy spirit is in these people.

You'll find that the important things are extremely common. Hope, Love, Tolerance, Empathy, Charity, Philanthropy, Brotherhood, Harmony and family values. You'll even show that 'family values' means much the same thing across the globe and across faiths.

It's the same fire on the same hill and they're all just looking at it from different directions through different landscape. The enlightened ones, who get closer to the fire, can see that all the ethnic, religious, racial and other divisions are irrelevant and only persist because they're continuously used by the greedy and domineering to divide and conquer.

Don't preach Hell. Don't preach heaven as a bribe to buy allegiance. Don't preach Satan as some anthropomorphized demigod enemy of god. Don't teach Paul and his woman-hating and bowing to authorities. These notions are repulsive, turn-offs, to so many.

Follow the Love, Empathy, Charity etc. and you'll find yourself blessed. Avoid the Primal urges of hatred, might-makes-right, jealousy and exploitation and you'll find yourself blessed.

You can articulate "Democrat Values" in spirituality and goodness and rightness that will appeal to many faiths, the faithless and, I think, the fundamentalists; Without turning half of them off with some of the more objectionable, and ancillary, doctrines of Roman/European/Nicaean Christianity.

Perhaps I should say "Leftern Values" as political affiliation could be a hinderance, but with identifyable Democrats involved.