Instead of viewing the left and the right as either inherently correct or wrong, a more scientific approach is to recognize that
liberals and conservatives emphasize different moral values.
Not exact matches
Where Wright is a
liberal mainline Protestant,
emphasizing liberation
and social action, Obama's new circle of pastors includes theologically
conservative evangelicals like Hunter
and Jakes, who stress God's grace
and personal transformation.
Both
liberals and conservatives want to recover a balance of freedom
and solidarity, with
liberals emphasizing lifestyle freedom while wanting to recover economic solidarity,
and conservatives pushing economic freedom while urging cultural solidarity.
According to popular assumptions,
liberal approaches to the Bible
emphasize messages of social action
and downplay supernatural intervention, while
conservative or traditionalist views accept the miraculous
and advocate quietist or reactionary politics.
All of us —
conservatives who are attentive to what the Bible says about sexuality
and indifferent to what it says about economics,
and liberals who mumble about what the Bible says on sex but
emphasize economics — all of us stand under the awareness that the primary commitments of our society amount to a choice of a path of death.
Contrary to what the vast majority of «
liberal»
and «
conservative» members of the public think, climate scientists do not believe sea levels will rise if the north pole ice cap melts (unlike the south pole ice cap, which sits atop a land mass, the north pole «ice cap» is already floating in the sea, a point that various «climate science literacy» guides issued by scientific bodies like NASA
and NOAA
emphasize).