Comments on: Why Sullivan matters… http://kairosblog.com/blog/2007/11/05/why-sullivan-matters/ Along for the Journey...On God's Time Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Philip the Equal Opportunity Cynic http://kairosblog.com/blog/2007/11/05/why-sullivan-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Philip the Equal Opportunity Cynic Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:01:47 +0000 http://kairosblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/why-sullivan-matters/#comment-316 I certainly don't consider myself progressive in the sense of liberal, but I'm glad to see Sullivan get his due. People who obsess over his former support for the war or whatever other issues are missing the point. Precisely because they haven't abandoned their claim to conservatism, it's stronger when someone like Sullivan or John Cole points out that the Republicans are lost at sea. I'm not saying that liberals or Democrats don't have equal voice to criticize, of course -- just that it's easier for the pseudocons to write off such criticism. I see that you write on issues of Christianity. The silence of US evangelicals on torture will echo to our shame for centuries, not unlike that of German Christians during the Third Reich. I <a href="http://sojournhuntsville.org/forum/topic/822" rel="nofollow">tried to get my own church</a>, which I thought was not particularly Republican, to engage the issue -- but why talk about such trifles when we could be debating theological minutiae? I certainly don’t consider myself progressive in the sense of liberal, but I’m glad to see Sullivan get his due. People who obsess over his former support for the war or whatever other issues are missing the point. Precisely because they haven’t abandoned their claim to conservatism, it’s stronger when someone like Sullivan or John Cole points out that the Republicans are lost at sea. I’m not saying that liberals or Democrats don’t have equal voice to criticize, of course — just that it’s easier for the pseudocons to write off such criticism.

I see that you write on issues of Christianity. The silence of US evangelicals on torture will echo to our shame for centuries, not unlike that of German Christians during the Third Reich. I tried to get my own church, which I thought was not particularly Republican, to engage the issue — but why talk about such trifles when we could be debating theological minutiae?

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