[Peace-discuss] Rick Warren, Nation Article et al.

[John W.]

Amen.  It's always amazing to me when religious faith is depicted as
actually antithetical to social justice.

John Wason


On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com>wrote:

I fail to see what's funny by talking down to religious people.  I credit
> part of my social justice radicalization to the Catholic Church and some of
> their work against the death penalty, the School of the Americas, etc.
> While I am not a spiritual person by any stretch, I fail to see how making
> fun of people who believe in such religious ideology is progressive or
> something that builds a movement.
>
> While religious ideas have brought us fundamentalists of all stripes, it
> has brought us Bonhoeffers, Romeros, Days and countless others who have
> worked very hard to establish the fruits of social justice.
>
> Live without dead time,
>      Neil
>
>  With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it;
> I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful because that's what
> really happens.
> [fannie lou hamer, 1917-1977]
>
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