Christian Liberals & Progressive People of Faith
In reply to the discussion: How do you feel after reading threads like this here on DU? [View all]Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Is that even quite vicious attacks on Christianity are acceptable on DU. I hate to find myself in agreement with Bill Donohue, the head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, a man who has built a career on playing the victim card. However, when he makes noises such as saying that anti-Catholicism is "the last acceptable prejudice in America," I can't say he's wrong. Certainly, anti-Christianity and anti-religion in general are acceptable prejudices here.
What particularly irks me is, as I remarked before in this thread, denouncing blatant bigotry as blatant bigotry is not acceptable. Now, I will admit that I am sometimes intemperate in my denunciations. I will just misquote Barry Goldwater, "extremism in opposition to bigotry is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." My mother, whose parents died in Auschwitz, taught me to loathe bigotry of any sort. I learnt that lesson very well.