Paul Wilczynski's Observations

Does the secular left understand the religious left?

Steve Shiffrin in Left2Right says not:

One of the premises leading to the creation of this site, as I understand it, is that there is insufficient communication between the left and the right. ... My assumption in this post is that the secular left does not understand the religious right or the religious left. For example, I doubt that many on the secular left could speak intelligently about the difference between fundamentalists and evangelicals, describe the heterogeneity of evangelicals, appreciate the extent to which the left is populated by those who proceed from a religious perspective, and, especially important, I doubt that most of the secular left understands the character of the religious arguments within and between religious traditions that have political ramifications. Without understanding the arguments, secular leftists cannot participate in effective ways.

posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 1:14 PM