There’s a Baby on Cal Thomas’ Lawn (Outside the Bathroom Window)
Cal Thomas’ recent column, “Religious Right R.I.P.“, expresses a sentiment shared by many Christians following the election of Barak Obama. That’s unfortunate, because although there is a straightforwardly good point made in the column, it sidesteps and then misdirects the very issue I think most readers take from it. Indeed, the article replicates and thereby reveals what so many people have misunderstood about the movement generically identified as the religious right. Thomas speaks as if the purpose of the religious right is to bring about soul transformation through the power of government. There may be people in the movement who have held that view, but they have been misguided all along, have been in the vast minority, and do not at all represent the genuinely valuable purpose of the religious right.
But rather than establish and debate that purpose afresh here, suffice it to point out that Thomas’ claims are either devoid of significance or wrong.
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