Do you know that not all us on the right want to enforce our religion through laws?
Yes, and that's good, but not important to people that don't know you or interact with you.
What matters are the numbers that do want to impose their religious views on others using the might of the state to do it.
I’m not saying we’re the majority, but we’re not the kind of people you lump is with
What kind of lumping do you mean? Using the word "Christians"? When I refer to all Christians collectively, I am generally referring to something that applies to most or all of them such as their willingness to believe by faith, or that most or all refer to the same scriptures.
Rather than refer to Christians - people - I am more likely to refer to Christianity and the Christian church, which is a worldview and the institution that promotes it, both abstract entities that transcend the people and other physical aspects of Christianity such as houses of worship. I for one consider the net effect of this immaterial juggernaut to be deleterious to societies in which it holds significant cultural hegemony, and so argue against it and the damage it does to many but not all of its adherents.
It doesn't matter to a secularist concerned with the church's incessant efforts to pierce the church-state wall, for example, or its efforts to demonize and marginalize homosexuals and atheists that some adherents aren't part of that problem.
It doesn't matter than 19% of white evangelical Christians didn't vote for Trump. What matters is that 81% of them did, and the abstract entity that created those 81%
And it doesn't matter that some Alabaman Christians won't vote for Roy Moore. You probably wouldn't. What matters is that the Christian church in Alabama has created too any people willing to vote for a pedophile that was twice kicked out of the Alabama Supreme Court.
And to address that, we don't deal with individual Christians, but address the program that makes so many of them a problem.
Still trying to figure out what "religious left" could possibly be ...
i presume it some sort of Americanism , could you explain in more detail ...
If you are referring to left in politics then it has nothing to do with religion
It's an American thing. Christians can be liberal or conservative, but in America, there is such a huge overlap between conservatives and Christians that the term "the religious right" has become familiar and meaningful. I'm assuming that by the religious left, he means politically liberal Christians, and considers himself one. I believe that he considers the conservative majority of Christians to be tarnishing how non-Christians view all Christians, and want to distance himself from the stigma being created by the conservative ones.
That's understandable.
Unfortunately, as you surely know, when you carry the banner for an organization, you inherit whatever comes with that whether you agree with it all or not.
