"Several of you who identify yourselves as liberal, mentioned that as you aged, you became more conservative. I wonder how age enters into it?" - DougR

I believe a total liberal attitude is for the young and as age matures one's outlook you realize the need to compromise between liberal and conservative views.

Of course, people like Kendall tend to blow that theory out of the water. Come to think of it, my father has gotten a little more liberal also.

Maybe it's that we tend to slip towards a center position. How much from the right have you slipped Kendall?

John Hardly, racism is not necessarily connected to the theology of groups but the people tend to clump together in groups that think alike. I saw this in Georgia (USA) where decent white Christians welcomed our new home puechase because we were white and the former occupants weren't. In their vernacular, "The neighdorhood is all 3white again." And then they sent the Joy Bus around to collect the kids for Sunday school. We also heard at length of how "those people" kept such a dirty house and how "they" liked to live that way.

This was not their theology. It did not come from anything they learned at church. It arose from all having the same opinion and joining together in that opinion in an environment where they were comfortable expressing that opinion with each other. It came from being in a group where no dissenter dared raise his/her voice.