hey, peeps.

Here's an editorial piece on BeliefNet suggesting a way that the political left and the Democratic Party could incorporate spiritual values and *not* depart from the intrinsic values of the Democratic Party.

You see, one of the *huge* factors the Democratic Party *missed out* on this election year was the upswell of religiosity and even of spirituality in the American populace that has been going on for quite some years now, evidenced *not* only by the rising tide of evangelicalism but also by the "New Age" movements, the recent Kabbalah fascination, the upswell of the old Pagan traditions in modern forms (and new Pagan traditions too) and so forth and so on, all pointing to a rising need in America for true spirituality, whether the people are actually *finding* that or not, and for *true* compassion, which the Republican Party *claims* but does *NOT* give in practice. A truly spiritually wedded political left, a truly spiritually wedded, and *NOT* religiously wedded, Democratic Party, oriented toward values of *true* compassion in *politics*, foreign and domestic both, might give us Americans and through us the Earth something *truly* great that we have so *sorely* been missing out on ever since the days, as the author of the editorial points out, when we of the political left looked to the spiritual mentorship of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

That having been said, here is the link to the editorial: Democrats Need a Religious Left. I think you may find the editorial provocative.

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