In-der-Blog-sein
The Religious Left is a new
blog started to:
challenge the right's claim on religious and moral language in the political realm and to develop and promote positive, religious understandings, which can provide the moral foundation for the liberal democratic political tradition and enable progressive politics to speak mroe effectively to religious people
The blog studies the opposition:
Areas of research
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Republican party is the coming together of fundamentalist Christianity and Leo Strauss's disciples (neo-conservatism). As I understand them, they both believe in Right vs Wrong and that gives them enormous strength.
And asks:
To win the hearts and minds of middle America, do we need to find a liberal version of Strauss (saying, there really are Right and Wrong) or do we need to throw our lot in with anti-Strauss philosophies? Can mainstream Christianity join with Heidegger?
Hmm. Area of research: deconstruct
this.