Who's Crazy Now
Who's Crazy Now
The Weekly Standard published the following
Back Down Memory Lane At Berkeley
Michael Lerner assembles the "Religious Left."
by Mark D. Tooley
MICHAEL LERNER was back on campus at Berkeley. But this time he is a portly Jewish rabbi leading 1,200 mostly middle-aged "spiritual progressives," and not the young Students for a Democratic Society agitator targeted by J. Edgar Hoover in the 1960s.
The "Politics of Meaning," Lerner's label for his spiritual liberalism, peaked in the early 1990s, when his supposed fans, Bill and Hillary Clinton, ascended to power. But Hillary disavowed Lerner when his quirky views attracted fire, and the old Berkeley activist, though still publishing Tikkun, seemingly faded.
Now Lerner is back. And his "Conference on Spiritual Activism," held at Berkeley this summer, tried to present a left-wing alternative to the dreaded Religious Right. Amid opening "visualizations" directed to Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, and the "goddess Divine Mother," Lerner hosted a fairly prominent array of Religious Left luminaries. MORE
Posted by Ted Belman at October 11, 2005 12:11 PM
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BobW
said:
Unitarian Minister and Sexologist Debra Haffner is not that clear. Does the Reverend not believe it sinful:
-to have sexual relations with one's parents?
-with the dead?
-against another's will?
-with animals?
I,too, support relational justice (I think).
Environmentalist Rachael Carson is both a direct and indirect cause of mass death in subSahara Africa.
Believe it or not - and I'm not sure if it's Methodist Jim Winkler or Mark Tooley saying this- but the religious conservatives have a huge black element.
I think that if the Rt Reverend Debra Hoffner, DD, gets near some mosques here in Virginia, she will experience forceful sexual and relational acts on her - and she won't even get kissed.
Is an ashram a synonym for wicca den ?
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on October 11, 2005 02:06 PM
Who's Crazy Now
The Weekly Standard published the following
Back Down Memory Lane At Berkeley
Michael Lerner assembles the "Religious Left."
by Mark D. Tooley
MICHAEL LERNER was back on campus at Berkeley. But this time he is a portly Jewish rabbi leading 1,200 mostly middle-aged "spiritual progressives," and not the young Students for a Democratic Society agitator targeted by J. Edgar Hoover in the 1960s.
The "Politics of Meaning," Lerner's label for his spiritual liberalism, peaked in the early 1990s, when his supposed fans, Bill and Hillary Clinton, ascended to power. But Hillary disavowed Lerner when his quirky views attracted fire, and the old Berkeley activist, though still publishing Tikkun, seemingly faded.
Now Lerner is back. And his "Conference on Spiritual Activism," held at Berkeley this summer, tried to present a left-wing alternative to the dreaded Religious Right. Amid opening "visualizations" directed to Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, and the "goddess Divine Mother," Lerner hosted a fairly prominent array of Religious Left luminaries. MORE
Posted by Ted Belman at October 11, 2005 12:11 PM