John Obrien says: More religion proselytizing - especially regular recently by Andrew S. on Buddhism - as "Inspiration and Miracles”
Ken Hiebert replies: I took look a the article posted by Andrew Stewart. I did not see any kind of religious proselytizing. It’s a review at an academic study of religious belief and practice in China. I have typically not read these articles posted by Andrew, not because I don’t think they belong here, but only because I do not have the time and energy to benefit from them. I have usually read the messages posted by John Obrien. And I have learned from them when he talks about his own experience or reminds us of the way that Bayard Rustin was treated by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. But what I don’t get from his messages is any guidance as to how we should respond to religious institutions and practice. Knowing what we know now, how should the left have responded to the campaigns of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference? Going to their actions we could be pretty confident we’d run into religious organization and religious figures. How should we have responded to them? I wonder how many atheists stopped singing when they got to the words “God is on our side?” What should they have done? Stopped singing? Turned their backs on the podium? Should they have brought leaflets and placards denouncing religion? This is not only a question of what we should have done in the past. We need to figure this out for today. I have never been in Alabama or anywhere near there. But I am willing to guess that some of the workers now voting on whether or not to join a union are religious believers. What do we have to say to them? What should we say to them about their religious beliefs? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7330): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7330 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81368949/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
