America: not so great?
Cross-posted from my personal journal
Why didn't we see more religious people on the left and right coming together around the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General?
Well, I think you make a good point-is torture a moral value? Religion, left or right, center, across the spectrum, ought to agree that torture is simply morally unacceptable. That message did come from some in the religious community-I signed a letter signed by lots of other people. But I wish we would have heard more from the religious right on the issue of torture; they oppose torture elsewhere around the world, in China, in Sudan, but what about when it's done tragically and painfully at the hands of American soldiers, justified seemingly by memos written by high administration officials and even the new Attorney General? You look for real integrity when you see conservative religious people challenging their political allies [or] liberal religious people challenging their political allies. And when they're just acting in lock-step with their political allies, then the prophetic voice of religion has somehow been lost.
from the Beliefnet.com interview with Rev. Jim Wallis, "Rescuing Religion From the Right "
Why didn't we see more religious people on the left and right coming together around the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General?
Well, I think you make a good point-is torture a moral value? Religion, left or right, center, across the spectrum, ought to agree that torture is simply morally unacceptable. That message did come from some in the religious community-I signed a letter signed by lots of other people. But I wish we would have heard more from the religious right on the issue of torture; they oppose torture elsewhere around the world, in China, in Sudan, but what about when it's done tragically and painfully at the hands of American soldiers, justified seemingly by memos written by high administration officials and even the new Attorney General? You look for real integrity when you see conservative religious people challenging their political allies [or] liberal religious people challenging their political allies. And when they're just acting in lock-step with their political allies, then the prophetic voice of religion has somehow been lost.
from the Beliefnet.com interview with Rev. Jim Wallis, "Rescuing Religion From the Right "