Believers keep out?

• Position: Letter to the editor

I am very pleased that a magazine such as The Progressive is published and I have gotten much out of your articles. Yet, I have been somewhat dismayed because the last two issues of your magazine (April and May) have had a full page advertisement announcing atheism. The impression you give is that only atheists are progressives and religious-minded people are not. Walter Rauschenbusch, Norman Thomas, Clarence Jordan, Martin Luther King Jr., and Charles Finney are examples of people who fought for progressive ideas on behalf of the poor and marginalized and who also believed in God. I personally am a democratic socialist by conviction as well as a believer in Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

People of faith are not the only ones that have biased members. I have found a number of progressive secularists who are also. I hope you publish this brief message. I am sure there are many more who read your magazine who share my convictions.

Eriberto (Eddie) Soto

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