Did election mark beginning of the end? (Leonard Pitts Jr.)

[Dickie Flatt]

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/10119167.htm

Maybe this is where America ends. A reader raised that notion in an e-mail to me even before last week's election. Dismayed at the fractures and fissures exposed by an acrimonious presidential campaign and despairing of ever putting this Humpty Dumpty together again, he advanced a radical thesis.

We are, he pointed out, a nation founded not on common ancestry but rather, shared ideals: liberty and justice for all. ...

But social conservatism is another thing entirely, a mutant strain unhindered by critical thought. These are the nominal Christians whose Bibles are so long on judgment yet so short on compassion, the soldiers of the new American theocracy who want to force creation "science" on the schools and deportation on the Muslims. ...

They give God a bad name.

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1. saphocat and now this article point out

the necessity for confronting the idea of superiority put out by the religous establishment directly.
the left CANNOT afford to leave churches out of teh critical line of fire.
i.e. after two thousand years of preaching about the poor -- why haven't THEY done a better job with the issue.
i.e. why do women get abortions even when they are illegal?
i.e. why are isues of sex abuse{children or adult} covered up rather than confronted directly?
i.e. what's they payoff for disenfrachising gay folk?
etc.
the writer is eentirely correct -- unless the left takes up it's own crusade to confront these flok directly -- and sahke up and shape americas sidion of moral superiority held by these people.