Basic Tenets
The Network of Spiritual Progressives was founded based on three basic tenets:
- Changing the bottom line in America.
- Challenging the misuse of religion, God and spirit by the Religious Right.
- Challenging the many anti-religious and anti-spiritual assumptions and behaviors that have increasingly become part of the liberal culture.
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