"The Right" and "The Religious" is far better than "the Religious Right" why even bring religion into politics?
In any case.. most of his followers are rich?? What about the vast numbers of Catholics in South America? What about the hordes of Christians in Africa and Asia? They're not all rich. [img]smile.gif[/img]
To follow Jesus, you can be rich, poor, young, old, left wing, right wing. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
I've found I'm often lumped in with "the religious right". Yes I have faith, but my politics are firmly on the left wing thankyou very much. Based actually on my understanding of the Bible to be even further ironic.
But I have friends who are Christian capitalists, tax advisors, ventured capitalists etc. Politics to the left and right, yet all Christian.
What about Franciscan Monks who even now still own no posessions and live in monasteries with shared posessions? Do people call Tibeten Buddhists "the religious right" because they are opposed to Communist China? Are the Falun Gong part of the religious right for the same reason?
Communism and Democratic Socialism are both to the left. One is totalitarian and repressed Christianity and Buddhism, and the other is, as is described, democratic in part and not totalitarian.
To be left wing, you don't have to be Communist, or anti-Christian nor love totalitarianism.
