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[m berst]

I am not talking about groups. I am saying that you get less flack in Evangelical church circles for being a liberal than you do in liberal circles for being a Christian. I am not trying to prove a point, just making an observation from experience. I have never gotten a screaming argument from an Evangelical for being a liberal. I often get that from liberals for being a Christian. It is so predictable and common that I am surprised it is controversial here.

No Evangelical Christian ever gave me a funny look or an argument when I said "I am a liberal." Say you are a Christian to a liberal and as likely as not you will get a drawn out "ok" with an eye-roll at best, and an unsolicited and heated debate at worst. Of course, many liberals find the simple statement "I am a Christian" to constitute "shoving my religion down their throat."

I don't know why this should be so, and I don't know what it means. It is merely an observation from touring and meeting tens of thousands of strangers around the country as a performer. To some extent it is a North - South thing. Northern Evangelicals are more likely to try to convert my atheist band members, and Northern liberals are more likely to argue with me. But even in the North, the liberals are always more aggressive and argumentative with me then the Evangelicals are with the atheists.

This is just an observation from thousands of encounters and is not intended to make a grandiose point or make any one wrong about anything.