The Truth About Liberalism: #3 Religion

Because my thinking, values, and political ideas are progressive, I take a lot of crap from people who really have nothing else on me. It's worse around election times, but there are die-hards that keep it up all the time. Most of the time I just ignore it, because I get along with these people fine when we're not talking about politics. But if there's one thing that really pisses me off, it's when anybody attacks my Christianity because I'm not in total agreement with the religious right (right as in the direction, not correctness). I'm not the only person who takes this crap. Inevitably, any Democrat, and even Republicans who aren't conservative enough, will be criticized for not being a good Christian when election time rolls around.

And the funny thing is, the religious right is wrong, about almost everything. Liberals are as good or better Christians than those nut jobs. Let me just condense their strong views that Jesus himself would agree with 100% (so they say):
1) God loves everybody, and wants everybody to find salvation, but gays, lesbians, anybody who's not 100% heterosexual shouldn't have anything to do with the church.
2) Killing is bad, God decides when people should die, and we're pro-life, but we believe the death penalty is a great tool with many uses, and we support politicians who think the same way. So really, we're not pro-life, we're anti-women's' rights.
3) God created the world, and charged us as it's stewards, so we should just trash the place.
4) The constitution says religion should have no bearing on the laws, and not everybody is a Christian, but our rules should be the law of the land, no matter what religion you are.
5) Science and school are great, until they start teaching things that don't fit into the Bible's teaching exactly. That's just blasphemy.
6) Despite the first amendment, if you wouldn't write/say it in church, you shouldn't be able to write/say it anywhere in public.
I could go on for days, but I'll just skip to the final rule: If you don't agree 100% with all of the above, you're going to hell.

I don't know about you, but that seems pretty hypocritical, and that's not my idea of what Jesus would do. This is where the progressive ideals of tolerance and open-mindedness prove far more in line with Christian values than any that the religious wrong spouts.

I try to be a good Christian. I make it to church almost every Sunday, I take good care of the environment, I don't harass, assault, etc people, I don't tell racist jokes, and I actually think about stuff instead of just believing the wrong's propaganda.

In conclusion, I'm tolerant (that's a liberal and Christian ideal), and you're entitled to think whatever you want under the constitution and the laws of Christianity.

But keep your theocracy off of my democracy.