“For some bizarre reason, all the issues like abortion, the death penalty, bombing civilians in Arab countries, and euthanasia, where belief in a Christian afterlife would seem to me to encourage a left-leaning viewpoint, are also issues where the western church leans to the right.”
By ‘the Western church’ you actually mean ‘Protestant, evangelical, churches in the USA’. The Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican (Episcopalian) churches, plus most of the nonconformist churches like the Mennonites and the Quakers, all oppose the death penalty. The Catholics and Anglicans both opposed the Iraq war.
Maybe you should not generalise about a billion people based on your own experience of a tiny number of people who would be considered by other Christians as being a bit nutty...
“For some bizarre reason, all the issues like abortion, the death penalty, bombing civilians in Arab countries, and euthanasia, where belief in a Christian afterlife would seem to me to encourage a left-leaning viewpoint, are also issues where the western church leans to the right.”
By ‘the Western church’ you actually mean ‘Protestant, evangelical, churches in the USA’. The Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican (Episcopalian) churches, plus most of the nonconformist churches like the Mennonites and the Quakers, all oppose the death penalty. The Catholics and Anglicans both opposed the Iraq war.
Maybe you should not generalise about a billion people based on your own experience of a tiny number of people who would be considered by other Christians as being a bit nutty...