Conservative and Progressive Religious activists

Ashley Barnett

September 28, 2009

10:48 pm

This article was about religious activists who in politics are either conservative or progressive had different views about religion. Both activists on both sides are deeply religious in some form or another, but have different opinions. The main difference that both groups are clashing at, are their views on the bible and the political priorities for their particular group. The conservative activists had a literal view of the scripture, meaning that they interrupt the words of the bible for what it was. They stay to the facts of the bible and the actually truth of what is being said through the bible. When it came to their personal political priorities, the conservative saw two main issues as important: they wanted the religious people to focus mainly on abortion and same sex marriage. Compared to the progressive activists who saw things quite different, they believe that the scriptures within the bible contained the word of God. They did not believe that it contained the inspired word of God but only the word of God in a simple form. Just words that was written but not so much of a meaning behind it. On the progressive political priorities side of view, they actual had five different issues of what they viewed as most important. These issues were poverty, health care, environment, jobs and economy, and Iraq war. The only political priorities that both had in common were immigration. Even though both groups had different religious affiliations, they both felt as though religion is very or extremely important in their lives.

I believe that the conservative side has a better view on religion than the progressive does. I do not understand how people can just say that the bible is simply words when it is so much more into it. I feel like people take the bible and words in the bible and twist them around for their own good and that is not the way it was intended to be.

http://the-tidings.com/2009/092509/activists.htm