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"maff" |
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03 Nov 2005 12:21:10 PM |
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Why Jesus Is Welcome In the Public Square |
Why Jesus Is Welcome In the Public Square
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110203188.html
Religiosity Isn't Just the Right's Territory
By Jennifer Moses
Thursday, November 3, 2005; Page A21
BATON ROUGE, La. -- It's not news that the Christian right often
appears to want nothing other than to impose its values, religious and
otherwise, on the rest of the nation. But liberals would be mistaken to
assume that it's only people on the far right who rely on the word of
God for everything from Sunday sermon topics to public policymaking. In
towns like Baton Rouge, religion is so much a part of public life that
most folks can't begin to fathom that there might be something less
than healthy in the blend. Of course, the religion in question is
always a fairly distinct brand of down-home Protestantism, but what the
hell. If you don't like Jesus, that's your business.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Why Jesus Is Welcome In the Public Square |
03 Nov 2005 08:57:13 PM |
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In <1131020470.848088.82910@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, "maff"
<maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
Why Jesus Is Welcome In the Public Square
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110203188.html
Religiosity Isn't Just the Right's Territory
By Jennifer Moses
Thursday, November 3, 2005; Page A21
BATON ROUGE, La. -- It's not news that the Christian right often appears
to want nothing other than to impose its values, religious and otherwise,
on the rest of the nation. But liberals would be mistaken to assume that
it's only people on the far right who rely on the word of God for
everything from Sunday sermon topics to public policymaking. In towns like
Baton Rouge, religion is so much a part of public life that most folks
can't begin to fathom that there might be something less than healthy in
the blend. Of course, the religion in question is always a fairly distinct
brand of down-home Protestantism, but what the hell. If you don't like
Jesus, that's your business.
<snork>
What a *hysterical article. Later, she writes:
"As far as I can tell, progressives and liberals of all stripes don't even
begin to fathom the despair and confusion most ordinary Americans feel
when they hear the latest violent rap song or see a billboard plastered
with an image of a 16-year-old clad only in Calvin Klein underwear. The
right wing of the Republican Party, on the other hand, has long understood
that most Americans yearn for something nobler in our national life, but
it doesn't care unless it can use frustration and despair to harvest rage,
and rage to harvest votes."
NOBLER? In Baton Rouge? Does she know where she is? In the capitol of one
of--if not *the--most corrupt state governments in the union? In a state
that's in the top ten--if not leading the nation--in such things as unwed
mothers, spousal abuse, violent crime?
Yes, religion and government get mixed rather freely down here in the
swamps. And we come out at the bottom of every survey on things like
education standards, employment opportunities, health care...
So, yes! Be noble! Mix religion and government in *your state! Why, Texas
started doing it under Bush and, just recently, they actually *beat us in
hunger! As in the state where residents are most likely to go hungry is
new Texas. They passed us up! (But I bet we got 'em whipped on that
education thing... something like 53rd among the 50 states).
Join us!
We all float down here...
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long
after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have
been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing.
Many who could have been were not. That's to the
government's shame."
http://www.nola.com/
"FEMA email warned of disaster"
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C5332250C
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