{"id":91,"date":"2008-08-25T19:52:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T19:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/progressive-but-not-the-religi.html"},"modified":"2008-08-25T19:52:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T19:52:48","slug":"progressive-but-not-the-religi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/progressive-but-not-the-religi.html","title":{"rendered":"Progressive (but not the religious kind) makes a Revival at the DNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having spent most of my time so far in religious events I decided to go to a “secular” event to see if the excitement that religious based activist are feeling here in Denver is translating into the general conversation.   <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The answer, in short, is no.  <\/span>I attended three panels supported by Air America Radio and the Progressive Book Club with such luminaries as Arianna Huffington, Paul Krugman, Ted Sorensen, Eric Dyson, Van Jones, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Thom Hartmann with hardly a word about religion or its role in this moment in American history.  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The two exceptions were Jon Podesta, Bill Clinton’s chief of staff who mentioned Jane Hull as a religious example of inspiration for the new progressive movement<\/span>; and <\/span>Ted Sorensen, JFK’s speech writer who compared the distrust of Kennedy’s Roman Catholicism with the racial distrust that many hold against Barack Obama.  <\/span>He said it was extreme and vitriolic and stopped many Protestants from voting for Kennedy.  <\/span>Responding, Jon Alter opined that Obama had to go into the polls leading by 5% to allow for the racism that would be a part of the electorate’s decision.  <\/span> <\/span>The equating of the racial discrimination of Obama with religious discrimination of JFK was a first for me and I am still considering its implications.  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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While God or any other religious word was absent from the discussion, the word of the day was “progressive.”  <\/span>It is nice to have our blog’s name vindicated in such a repeated way.  <\/span>The word was used to exhaustion avoiding such ugly words as liberal or left that leave so many feel uncomfortable.  <\/span>Check out Progressive Revival’s Randall Balmer for his take on the L-Word.   <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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More interestingly was the belief put forth by Huffington, Podesta, and Krugman that  <\/span>echoed Alexia Kelley’s point about the Catholic vote from the morning’s panel – that the majority of Americans are progressive if you can remind them what progressive politics mean which include, among other things, social security and universal health care.   <\/span>While religion might not have made a revival at this afternoon’s panel, progressivism is back with a vengeance. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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