That's why I stuck to the science topic.
But thats different to what you were saying with the church stopping scientific progress to using science to determine whether something is beneficial socially. Science cannot tell you something is morally good for society.
I'll cover this later.
That's the problem. It can't be. The parties and coalitions are all different. For example, you incorrectly have equated the "Left" with the Democratic Party (and here with socialism and porgressivism), when the Democrats *are not* a socialist party and the left-most faction of the Democratic Party is the "progressive wing". I don't even know the name of your parties and I don't pretend to.
Australian and British politics are similar to the US in that we also have Labor which is like the Dems and Conservatives which are like the republicans in their basic political philosophies. Labor and the Dems are more progressive and for the working class and Conservatives were more for business and privatisation.
But the parties were more towards the center in the past when the majority believed in God. There were some common beliefs. But in the last 60 odd years a divide and polarisation has happened. The Dems and Labor have allowed the radical fringes to take over. We seen this with Harris.
There are some nuances between nations but generally speaking each side has become more radical and polarised in their positions. This is a natural consequence of how politics has become more about identity and ideology than policy.
The Left generally have become socialist even hard socialist which has been a common policy for the Left throughout the world. Many nations in Europe who promoted generous immigration policies and lax laws came with Left wing governments.
ABC is *also* corporate middle-of-the-road media. You might be familiar with their parent company: The Walt Disney Company.
ABC is not middle of the road and neither is their parent company Disney but one of the most radical Left media outlets. I mean why do you think they are going broke. What do they say 'Go Woke and Go Broke' lol.
Disney Quietly Acknowledges Its Left-Wing Agenda Is Costing Shareholders
Disney has harmed investors with ‘woke’ agenda
An episode of “Muppet Babies” depicts Gonzo — a bird-like creature originally thought to be a boy — struggling to tell his friends that he wants to wear a dress to a party.
nypost.com
There is no need to do either. The context is clear. They are not proper nouns.
Ok well as you can see above in the heading that says Left-Wing that this is a common use of language today to describe the situation and most people know immediately what is mean by it.
Part of my problem with your "political commentary" is that you put of the false separation of "Christians" on one side and "Democrats" on the other. Even your examples don't follow the way you think they do. The basic positions that Democrats take on SSM and abortion are *majority* positions held by large fractions of Christians in the US.
I disagree. Though some churches have become more Woke most Christains disagree with supporting abortion and SSM. They may say that civil society has the right to allow people their own freedom of choice. Or that abortion is acceptable if theres threat to the life of the mother or baby. But they don't support abortion ot SSM morally.
They can't support abortion as the bible clearly states that God knows us in the womb from conception. We are a unique humans with a soul from conception. The same with SSM. They may say people have a right to get married under civil laws but they don't support SSM under God. If they do they are not Christains but false prophets which the bible also tells us about.
In fact its almost become trendy to water down Christ as some cool dude who hangs with prostitutes, gays and sinners and thus somehow is rationalised as He tolerates all these behaviours. Its just a modern watering down of the Gods word.
One stalwart faction of the conservative movement either didn't care about abortion or held positions similar to the Democratic party as recently as 40 years ago.
Yeah thats about when politics began to become all about identity and progressive ideology was filtering into society from academic critical theories. Everything was questioned and rationalised and Gods word and truth was being undermined.
In fact that is just after Roe V Wade so of course some Christains would jump of the progressive bandwagon to make themselves all relevant. Which only goes to show how socialisation can influence peoples beliefs. But it was not biblical.
(Abortion opposition was a very Catholic thing then and conservative activists "converted" evangelicals to it because opposition to desegregation was considered unsavory and they needed a new motivator.
I would have thought abortion is just a biblical and Christain thing. There's no Catholic or Protestant or Mormon interpretation. It is what it is. Abortion is wrong full stop unless in cases where a life is threatened. The idea of an abortion being a form of contraception has never been supported by Christains.
Another aspect is that of Democratic Party politicians *more* of them are self declared Christians than they average American answering a phone survey. The general American public is far more non-religous than politicians of either party. There are plenty of left-leaning or Democratic Christian member of this site. The two things (Christian and Democrat) are not opposites.
Actually its harder for a Democrate to be a Christain in todays secular progressive society as the basic position is that you have to treat all beliefs and moral determinations as equal without destinction to be democratic. You have to allow anti God ideology as well as Christainity. Therefore your not standing on your own Christainity but rather undermining it.
Being progressive they have to be relevant to secular progressive ideology which defies Gods laws and Christainity. What we end up seeing is not only do they have to allow all alternative ideologies they cannot remain neutral because in reality the radical progressive sections demand loyalty as well. They end up giving in to the radical elements.
Christianity is incompatible with the Democratic Party
Because it has chosen narcissism as its foundation for faith, the Democratic Party has cast out whatever Christian elements it may have once had.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Today’s Democratic Party is increasingly secular, which complicates and limits traditional forms of faith outreach. “This emerging group of secular Democrats coexists a little uneasily with the more religious wing of the party,”
For the past four decades, the notion that religious beliefs should guide voters’ decision-making has been largely monopolized by the Republican Party. But the …
fivethirtyeight.com
OK. well all I am doing is reflecting what the voters were actually saying. In fact its what some Dem and Left media are now saying about themselves. So there must be some truth in their self reflections.
