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Related: About this forumA Descendant of Robert E. Lee Speaks Out Against the Sin of White Supremacy
Source: The Progressive, by Eric Gunn
The Reverend Rob Lee has an unusual vantage point from which to view this time of deep political polarization.
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Lee, twenty-five, emerged as a distinctive voice last year in the movement to remove monuments to his ancestor and other Confederate leaders. After last summers rally by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, at which counter-protester Heather Heyer was killed by an automobile driven by a rally participant, Lee made public statements against white supremacy in his capacity as a church pastor.
Rev. Lee says:
What were seeing is almost the de-evolution of the evangelicalism and conservative evangelicalism that started with the Moral Majority. This is a real problem for Christians, especially progressive Christians like myself, who see this as a grave injustice to the faith. This is a real problem.
Read it all at: http://progressive.org/dispatches/speak-up-and-speak-out-rev-rob-lee-180215/
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)must challenge the simplistic media framing that theism=conservatism.
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)Not I, certainly. I know many progressive Christians. There is no equation that would make them conservatives. There are, of course, "theists" who are conservatives. I recognize both.
I've not seen anyone post such an equation here, except you.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)must challenge the simplistic media framing that theism=conservatism.
I did not say "people at DU".
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The most prominent Christian voices heard and seen in the news media are those of evangelicals, fundamentalists and the so-called "Christian Right." They are the people creating the general public view of what a Christian is and what American Christians stand for.
Which supports what I wrote. So why exactly did you respond in the way that you did?
Edited to add a link:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218272031
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)When people fail to speak out as loudly against people who are speaking loudly out of hatred, there is some responsibility.
I'm not hearing the voices of progressive Christians in the mainstream media, but I can't stop hearing the voices of the other side. Why is that?
Posts on DU do not count in that assessment. Nor does writing or speaking in venues that are seen only by a tiny minority. We need to hear prominent progressive voices connected with Christianity in the same places we're hearing the voices of those who promote evil.
I'll keep watching for that.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Apparently we are reading/responding to 2 different things here.