Christians and Karl Rove hold no monopoly on values

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Americans have been voting their moral values since George Washington.

-snip-

But moral values and Christianity are not necessarily the same thing. Surely, other religions believe they have moral values, and surely the unchurched in this country have moral values. History tells us that man's inhumanity to man has frequently flown the banner of God. Ancestors of those who kill today in the name of Islam were several centuries ago killed in the name of Christianity.

Christianity has seen times of intolerance: the Inquisition and the Crusades, among others. Islam has been a religion of violence for much of its history, and today is endangered by its zealots. Ultra-Orthodox Jews have turned a tolerant and much-admired Israel into a military bastion that answers to no international force or pressure. Hindu extremists have slaughtered Muslims in India.

All of these movements proceeded in the name of God. All gained power because clever politicians found "the base," and ultimately the base passed into the wrong hands.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002086567_floyd10.html

[Maat]

1. I don't think of Bush's base as 'Christian'...

I think of them as the 'religious right,' and I'll bet you do too.

So, when one of them brings up morality, I tell that I do not think that killing over one hundred thousand innocent civilians is moral,and they usually shut up.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. You give a good response to them

More of us on the left should do likewise.

[salvorhardin]

3. Personally...

I think of them as a death cult. There are no morals in that the most ultimate form of nihilism.

[OneBlueSky]

4. Karl Rove and the religious right have no values . . .

what they have is bigotry that they like to pass off as values . . .

[Go_andbe]

5. yeah we do have to stand for something