This link is to a visual representation of the sphere of influence of the religious right: Expanding Universe. It will make your hair curl. If you're a visual thinker, this is a nice representation of what's-connected-to-what in their very inter-connected world. You might particularly look at the Institute on Religion and Democracy (I'm emphatically NOT providing a link; look for it on the lower right of the universe chart.) which denounces feminism in Christianity, and points particularly (in one article, anyway) to.... the Catholic Church. The mind reels.
Here's a question. I've always thought that the political and religious left was un-organize-able. We value diversity, plurality, possibility rather than premature closure when it comes to ideas and theories, and we don't want to lose that. So we can't rival the right in marshalling the "troops" on behalf of our ideas.
But.... it's the political left that thought up labor unions. It's the religious left that brought us base communities. We can organize when we need to, or want to, or choose to. Why can we do it sometimes and not others? Might there be a way to organize us for massive political change, after all? Can we reclaim the discourse, with genuine thought regarding, for example, religion and democracy in a way that does more than mask hatred with pretty words?
Thanks to Activism Blog for posting this graphic before I did.
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