http://sunflowerchalice.com/2008/06/03/politically-conservative-religious-liberals/ spiritual resources for the religious left Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:23:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://sunflowerchalice.com/2008/06/03/politically-conservative-religious-liberals/#comment-351 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:21:13 +0000 http://www.sunflowerchalice.com/?p=128#comment-351 I was interested in UU’ism for a while, as I affirm Enlightenment-era Deism, Transcendentalism, and Comparative Religion as precious and valuable academic and intellectual-religious outlooks on life, as well as ideologies central to Americanism. However, like many others, what I did find was a heavy emphasis on what the denomination believes to be “social justice.” All people have always had an innate drive to make the world a better place, but I feel that in the Marxist-oriented realm of social justice/liberation theology predomenent within the UUA, those who believe in the power of the individual as opposed to the collectivist whole and those who believe in Free Market economics are villified, scorned, marginalized, derided, and silenced all too often.
Spiritual liberty and full political/social liberty are not incompatible.

]]> http://sunflowerchalice.com/2008/06/03/politically-conservative-religious-liberals/#comment-278 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:34:04 +0000 http://www.sunflowerchalice.com/?p=128#comment-278 Nice post. I quite agree that one can be politically conservative (though, perhaps, not extremely so) and religiously liberal (in a UCC sort of way) snce both rely on the concept of personal freedom and personal responsibility. I suppose I have to agree with Plato who argued that we should live our lives in moderation. Extremes in any direction can only lead us to greed, gluttoney and intolerance.

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