Jim Wallis’s new book and his engagement in political life is welcome and beneficial. Finally left-leaning theists are getting a high-profile voice to expose the hypocrisy of the Republicans’ policies.
Why, though, must he use the term “Christian evangelical?” Does he really have to alienate a large percentage of the voting public that way? There is a long and abusive history of repression by evangelicals. Even to say “Christian values” is a slap in the face for Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc.
Why not just say God’s values? We all worship the same one God in different forms. In each religion His/Her professed values are virtually the same, except of course to the fundamentalists and atheists.
—Mike M.
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