But the religious right certainly doesn't speak for all christians. There are plenty of liberal christians as well. I'm disturbed by how the religous right has become the voice of christianity when it seems to concentrate so much being anti-abortion and anti-gay and ignores social and economic justice.
It's going to take the moderate Christians and moderate Republicans becoming more active & effecting change inside their party & churches.
vw, I don't know if this came up, but Barbara Kingsolver's
Prodigal Summer
is set in modern Appalachia. It's a marvelous book. I highly recommend it on book on tapes or CD because the author reads it, with her soft Kentucky cadences.
Sex-positive
This makes me think of film Café Flesh. "Would you like me to take a memo?"
Susan, she's so tall! And adorable.
It's going to take the moderate Christians and moderate Republicans becoming more active & effecting change inside their party & churches.
Speaking of which, I read a nice piece in the LAT's Opinion section the other day on Black churches written by one of the AME pastors. All about the history of liberal activism in the Black church and all What the Heck? about the recent push to put Black churches at the forefront of the anti-gay marriage movement. Made me want to go to church.
That really is a beautiful book, Java.
Informative, too.
It is no "Poisonwood Bible" but we probably wouldn't want to mess around with that thing just now.
And not just Europeans...I have a hard time dealing with religion in America, too. Because I don't really have one, but I can't really say I'm an atheist. There are parts of many kinds of spirituality I appreciate very much, but I can't imagine wanting to fight somebody over any of it, and I don't belong to the church I spent my childhood going to.
I sometimes wish I could commit that way.
Or say it's all dreck like when I was the eighteen yo Angry Atheist(not to say that is anyone else here, just me. I was an awful atheist...made y'all look bad.)
Recovering this from the blur of commentary.
In a way, I think that being exposed to good, bawdy humor throughout one's life is probably the best way to gain a healthy attitude towards sex. Good bedroom farce can show that sex is fun, complicated, has consequences, etc. and make it seem like a natural part of life.
Loving Anne's suggestion that sex education be taught through Feydeau.
Holy hell, I meant Rabelais.
No Baudelaire?
Dude, that's graduate work.
Also Rabelais (see above, re: edited post).
Yay, Daniel!
And for something completely different ... My boss is at flea's Looniversity nailing down details for a two-year-at-least project. I feel so espionage-y. Like I should have her tell him, "Your folks must work so hard, you should give them a raise."
