Well, I'm over 1000 miles away, but I'd say I fall into that category of believers. It's sometimes hard for me to put my beliefs into words, since I wasn't really raised with any particular organised beliefs or bylaws. Only the general basic understanding of God as our Creator and protector, and Jesus who died for us. Anything after that I came to in adulthood, making it rather a hodgepodge and not very easily clarified, even in my mind.

I was feeling very discouraged after reading wayfairer's post about the religious right, wondering how on earth we could counter that kind of thinking. I suppose, in some ways, the best thing for us to do is just ... be. To live our faith out loud (sort of along the lines of msscribe's message of visibility), rather than to get overtly confrontational. I came to the church I'm in because of two people who just lived what they believed, and I wanted to learn more and be part of that. I wonder if it would work for general ideologies as well?