Feeling Less Than I really hadn’t intended to turn yesterday’s post into a referendum on Home Schooling. My own views on Home Schooling have mellowed in the past few years. I ran out of time but, what I was really trying to convey was my own tendency to feel less than.  Even though I often think they are nut cases, I have a tendency to feel less than Conservative or Fundamentalist Christians.  “Oh you Home School, you must love your children and the Lord more than I do.”  

I don’t think I am alone in this because in the last 30-40 years Liberal Christians have really let the Fundamentalist Christians define the playing field.  I heard someone recently define themselves as an “Evangelical born in the wrong century.”  I won’t go that far but, I can really relate that statement.  In the 19th century Evangelicals lead the fight against slavery and other evils.  Did you see anything very Christian about our government’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina?  Yet, George W. Bush won the presidency largely because he said he was a Christian.  I am not saying he is not a Christian, I am just saying actions speak louder than words.        

I have just touched the third rail of Alcoholics Anonymous, Politics and Religion.  Oh well, my higher power who I choose to call God will forgive me.    
      ¶ 9/13/2005 02:13:00 AM