My Facebook page shows a crisis of faith from top to bottom. It seems the Red State Jesus folks are flipping out. There are Blue State Jesus people. They don't get much respect. A liberal Christian's faith is often disparaged as apostasy or heresy by the "true" believers and ridiculed by the agnostics and atheists of the liberal political party. Can your politics influence your faith? Certainly!
I registered as a Democrat my Senior year in high school. I came home that day. My parents asked me what party I registered with at the dinner table. There was complete silence after my announcement. Then it started. "How could you?""What were you thinking?""We're a Republican house!" You'd have thought I had announced I had become a serial killer.
I survived my first "crisis of faith" that evening. I didn't change my party affiliation. My parents eventually accepted my assessment of the Republican Party as selfish, hedonistic and heartless. That assessment was heresy to my family back then, but I never backed down and patiently pointed out every example of how the GOP was selfish, self gratifying and heartless; and more importantly, how those positions were 180 degrees from every Christian teaching they insisted I learn. Either I wore them down or they saw the light. They both changed their party affiliations to the Democratic Party some years later.