In Reply to: Re: Where is your humor? posted by Thinker on October 15, 2008 at 23:16:23:
Wait...okay...tilt your head a little to the left....yes, you're right...there is definitely a tongue lodged firmly in your cheek.
I owe you an apology, for sure.
Upon reading Mr. Don's query again, I found it interesting that he acknowledges that the "Christian Right" have been well defined by the media. But what about the left, he asks? It is truly amazing how powerful the media are - not only in the US but worldwide. They have a way of getting into our heads so fully that our personal lexicons are often dictated by them. You may have demonstrated this yourself when you shared your own "amusement" with what you termed the "American right." A group that according to you claims such ownership of Christianity that, as you wrote, {they} "see anyone left or left-leaning as automatically less Godly somehow. If you listened too closely to some of them you'd think Jesus was a warmongering Republican." Apparently, you're not "uneasy" about calling out the "American Right," but are not so willing to do that with the "left." Whoever they are.
Obviously, terms like left and right are not scientific and fluctuate with time. It may have been the French who first used them politically. Gotta love those French. However, there are large groups of people who are pro-abortion (or "choice"), and there are large groups of people who are pro-life. They have been termed "left" and "right" by the media...the right being far more demonized. The terms may not have come into play on this board at all if they had not been used by certain posters in order to make a statement, or point. They're part of the general lexicon no matter how much we dislike them.
As for Jesus - if we can make Jesus out to be whomever we wish him to be, does that mean that we are all correct about who he is?