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seaver--thanks---i took your earlier post as implying that to be a christian meant agreeing with fundamentalist protestant positions--which is simply wrong.
you can start almost anywhere and find that fundamentalist protestants are quite strange within christianity--from the assumption that the bible is literally true, through the "end times" nonsense, through the relation between religious and political beliefs.
i think it is naive to assume that christianity has any monopoly on people's ethics--i think deeply religious people might prefer to think that is true--but it really isnt. you might think about the enormous phenomenon that is the catholic church in america, its problematic relations with rome, the huge diversity of political positions elaborated in/through catholicism directly and indirectly--you cant really say much of anything about catholics being of one mind politically about anything--nor can you say that the ways catholics map their religious beliefs onto politics is necessarily direct.
i emphasize extreme right politics when i refer to fundamentalist protestant groups because--well---it's true.
i dont use it to refer to all of christianity because that would be stupid.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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