deterioration of civil rights

[badsede]

So, just let me add my own voice to the displeasure at the eminent domain decision of the Supreme Court that has set the precedent for eminent domain to extend to include commercial enterprize within "public use

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[badsede]

The development is actually a good one .. well, relatively speaking. It really will benefit the community and should do quite a bit to improve the economy and built fabric of the city. But that only makes it seem all the more inocuous, and thus all the more dangerous. It is easy to justify it in this case, but the means are just not appropriate.

In a way, this is partly the fault of the developers. If they were, on the whole, more discerning, better community members and just built better stuff, there wouldn't be such distrust of them and they'd stand a better chance of actually convincing people that the development is good. But instead, they have bought themselves some more "good government" so that they don't have to bother being better.

[badsede]

I just cannot wrap my mind around the idea of a Christian Left *or* Right. Christianity simply does not fit the ideologies of the either the Left or the Right, and toeing either the Left or Right ideology is to abandon Christian principles in some way or another.

The politicization of Christianity as it is occurring in this country is probably the biggest danger that it is facing .. even greater than revisionism or population attrition.

[badsede]

very true .. any ideology can easily fall victim to that mindset.

[annabellissima]

The politicization of Christianity as it is occurring in this country is probably the biggest danger that it is facing.. even greater than revisionism or populations attrition.I agree 110% We've talked about this before, but I do believe there is a "Christian Right" and it consists mainly of non-Catholic Christians... unfortunately some of us Catholics are getting caught up in the maelstrom, tho... Whereas Catholicism find no niche among the political parties that pretend to serve the people, I think that the GOP very much is a niche for non-Catholic Christians and the Democratic party is *mostly* a niche for relative-thinking people who find difficulty aligning themselves with the tenents of most faiths. Just my opinion... I think it has to do a lot with the non-Catholic Christian pilgrims who so highly stressed the freedom of their religion in the founding of America. I really do believe that the principles which accompanied the founding of America gel much more with Protestantism than with any other Christian faith. All in

[badsede]

I think there is a what could be called a Christian Left. There was once a time when the "left" actually had more in common with Christianity than the right did - there's a reason that the majority of Catholics were Democrats 30 years ago. I think that there are people who remember that and still operate under a left ideology that has not abandonned Christian morality like much of the Left has. Unfortunately, the left is increasingly leaving them behind and the right is not really doing anything to change those things that put them in conflict with Christian ideals 30 years ago except not be the ones abandonning Christian principles even more than before.

Politically people like me have no home, only hostile country.

[annabellissima]

There was once a time when the "left" actually had more in common with Christianity than the right did - there's a reason that the majority of Catholics were Democrats 30 years ago.

I agree, 100%, but I didn't know how to point that out without possibly offending many somehow (because I would have compared it to what it is today). I remember doing the *backspace backspace delete delete delete* on that one. Heh.

I'm having trouble finding a home, too. It's one of the reasons I dislike American politics so much because I find it impossible to reconcile it with my faith (and with the idea of the Communion of Saints). When I think of all of the universality and internationality of cultures within Catholicism, it makes me sick and tired of the exclusiveness and narrow-sightedness of the "Christian Left" and "Christian Right" American political values.

[badsede]

I honestly think that the Democratic party is the best hope for American politics. A return to its core principles would require it to leave behind its slavish adherence to the far left. It would also then embrace greater diversity of ideals within the party. In closing its ranks, the party has closed out many of its core population. I truly do think that the core principles of the Democratic party are superior to those of the Republican party. But the party as it is now has sold out on those principles. Until it embraces them again, they will leave the Republican party, with its inferior ideology, as the lesser of two evils .. and further, leave it complacent as all it has to do is wait for the Democrats to screw up again and not do any real work for the people.