DO PROGRESSIVE/LIBERAL CHRISTIANS AND CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS REALLY THINK DIFFERENTLY?
Author of Jesus Rode a Donkey: Why the Republicans Don’t’ Have a Corner on Christ Part Three: About the Future How do Liberals/Progressives and Conservatives en-vision the future? Conservatives often don’t have a good attitude toward this life, which might be referred to as a “veil of tears”, or as “a sorrow which will go away when Jesus comes again”. For many of us Liberals and Progressives, we like it here. This doesn’t mean that we don’t look forward to Eternal Life, or that we don’t see problems and sin inherent in life, but we believe that we can create a better earth through creative thinking and through compassionate and just and merciful policies. We don’t accept the inevitability of war simply because it’s difficult to envision the possibility of peace. We don’t accept the inevitability of inequality because equality seems to be a pipe dream. We are willing to try to create something that has never been before – and to go through the difficult process of figuring it out, exper
