Darkness cannot exist in the presence of light, nor can hatred exist in the presence of love. God is not dead, just misquoted and misrpresented. Defeatism is despair, and not uncommon in these times of religious fascism and corporate war, but to say religion and God are both dead is frivolous self-flagellation at best. History has long shown us the penchant for the ignorant to impose their moralistic agendas on free thinking people (Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from inferior minds..Einstein) Inch by inch, we grow closer to an enlightened society, and evidence of this is right here in Georgia, one of the reddest fundamentalist states in the country. Here, where Jim Crow and Lester Maddux are household words, we not only ran a black female as a legitimate contender against a rich white male for Zell Miller's seat in the Senate, but elected a black woman to Congress from Atlanta Inch by inch we climb from darkness into light, from hatred into tolerance and love. We must never abandon the progress of the human spirit. While difficult times may look as though we are losing the battle, we shall surely win the war. Recommended reading: Power vs Force, David R Hawkins The Power of Intention, Dr. Wayne Dyer
Ed Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not long after I had discovered through a summer job during my seminary years with the then totally corrupt Protestant Council of the City of NY -- which turned out to be a front operation for a group of Billy Graham fundamentalists who were not even residents of NYC and known to be totally corrupt by the NYC Episcopals and Presbyterians in its anti-Semitism and anti-Civil Rights efforts behind the scenes, a new "death of God" theology surfaced: http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/deathgod.htm which might better have been entitled the theology of the "death of religion in America." While there are still decent people struggling to do the right things in our religious institutions -- many are dear friends and colleagues -- most good people of leadership capacity have departed to do their good things elsewhere -- leaving the scoundrels and less competent in charge of our religious institutions where they do battle all too often against the ever fewer authentic Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish progressives. Let us look at the record. The terrible error of the Catholic Church has not been its pedophiles abusing kids, but rather the cover-ups and abuses of their victims by its hierarchy! Protestant battles loom in each of the denominations between the Christians and crooks and hate mongers. And the conversion of such once justice pursuing organizations as the Anti Defamation League into a Muslim hating right wing lobbying group is a sad defeat of a religion once known for its unbending pursuit of justice. And so it has gone in Amerika -- religion, as well as God, has died! How sad. Ed Kent, B.D., UTS, 1959 -- "A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy) -- Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CollegeConversation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/440neighborhood http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StudentConcerns ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= FIGHT THE RIGHT! ================== Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= FIGHT THE RIGHT! ================== Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
