Letter to the Editor

by Mic Altena

I would like to challenge the generalizations and labels that were used in the recent article “Learning ‘Liberaleese’.” Aside from being largely inaccurate (liberal, post-modern, relativistic, pluralistic and secular are all very different terms with very distinct worldviews), these labels are also toxic to our communities. Reducing individuals to a common denominator and placing them in groups devalues an individual’s fundamental identity and in so doing deepens the divisions that characterize many of our communities by reinforcing inaccurate generalizations.

Instead of painting a picture of us apart from them (present in the article’s disputable assumption that Christians are confounded by the so called “mainstream society”), let’s paint a picture of mutual humanness. Together, as children of one God, may we join hands in solidarity as we prepare for the wedding feast that gathers every living creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea to sing, “Worthy is the Lamb.”

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