I’ve been labeled a Liberal
NT Wrong has created a list of bibliobloggers that includes how conservative or liberal NT Wrong deems that blogger to be. I’m categorized as a liberal Early Judaism and ANE (ancient Near East) blog.
In answer to the question of what qualifies as a liberal or conservative blog, NT Wrong commented on mu-pàd-da that, “The classifications are based on the attitude to bible and doctrine, not politics.”
Personally, I’m still not sure how that makes me a liberal. I’ve always thought that it was my conservative attitude towards the Bible that made me a liberal more generally. After all, if the infighting between P, H and D could make it into the canon, then who am I to nitpick someone’s theology?
Of course, it might be exactly my use of sources P, H and D that deemed me a liberal in the first place.
Update (10/30): NT Wrong has now posted a more definitive set of criteria for his categories. His definition of liberal is as follows:
You esteem the Bible for the work it is. You spend a lot of time working out ways to read the Bible which can liberate it for different readers. You have a book on queer readings of the Bible on your bookshelf.
I guess this then might be a good time for me to recommend Ken Stone’s Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective…
You’re just sooooooo liberal. ;-p
I’ll swap you the “fairly conservative” tag NT Wrong gave me, if you like. Not quite sure how I got that one!
I’m going to have to delete you from my RSS reader, oh, wait, I was labeled liberal also.
I pay a lot of attention to P, H, and D, but somehow I got labeled “Fairly Conservative.” If my conservative brother heard I had I had been labeled that way, I am sure he would do an honest-to-God spit-take.
Kevin, that’s true! You use P, H and D; and you’re an Episcopalian to boot! I think you should be relabeled “very liberal”
Noooo! That book is too expensive. NT Wrong’s list is queer as fuck anyway!
When people are far enough to the right, anything to the left is liberal.