The Decembrist: The right question about religion...maybe

The Decembrist: The right question about religion...maybe
Quote:
"The right question, I think, is not whether religion has an undue influence, but why it is that the current flourishing of religious faith has, for the first time ever, virtually no element of social justice? Why is its public phase so exclusively focused on issues of private and personal behavior? Is this caused by trends in the nature of religious worship itself? Is it a displacement of economic or social pressures? Will that change? What are the factors that might cause it to change?"

Damn straight. If the Dems reconnected with their purported base as a social justice party for the people and used rhetoric reminescent of Christian ideals without expressly advocating Christianity, they might have a solution, IMHO.