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RE: virus: Can Jesus be at the Rally?
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[Blunderov] A thought provoking essay. 'Any port in a storm' is my view.
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http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/25378/
Can Jesus be at the Rally?
By Hector Gonzalez, Silicon Valley De-Bug. Posted September 13, 2005.
<snip>Whenever there are events that are put together by leftist groups,
they have every type of spiritual ceremony except for Christian. There's the
Aztec dancing, indigenous prayers, spiritual healings, drum circles, incense
burning, but there is never room for a Christian prayer.
It seems that this occurs only in this country. It seems that the ability to
denounce a Christian God is a privilege that can only truly manifest in a
privileged nation such as this one, often committed by activists privileged
enough to do so. Throughout Latin America (including El Salvador, where I am
from), people use Christianity as the frontline for their movements. Even in
this country during the civil rights era, people were gathering in churches
and using Christian values to fight for equality. And today, in the most
ghetto hoods of America, people are gathering in churches for political
means.
In the 60's, the hippie era took effect and greatly sculpted our current
left political landscape. That movement wasn't founded on a human struggle,
but rather a "consciousness" that took place in rich schools like Berkeley
where people were encouraged to walk away from church. I am not suggesting
that church is where people needed to be, but after this, people seemed to
have forgotten that just a few years prior African Americans lead the civil
rights movement that would change the course of this country forever. The
people that lead it were Christians.
Church wasn't for me, but I could still understand and respect Christianity.
Some people need Jesus. I know that my starving people of El Salvador did.
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