Category: Christianity

Layers

 There is another, deeper, emotional/spiritual layer to this entire problem.  I used to try to explain it but it falls on secular ears, and is largely ignored as insignificant.  It is anything but, and anyone who cares about justice and dignity in the Middle East would do well to try to understand it better.  Back in …

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Rick Warren’s forum

 I’ve been meaning to ask you if you watched the Saturday night Saddleback forum and, if so, what you thought of it.  I’ll go ahead and give you my two-cents’ take… First, Rick Warren came across as a little too smug and a bit narcissistic — his subsequent fame on the bobble-head cable shows like CNN …

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Rabbi Fox

Ms. Gassaway, I had hoped the rabbi’s recent rant would be disregarded by your readers as the specious partisan pandering it obviously is to anyone who understands even the smallest bits of Middle Eastern history and contemporary realities “over there.”  However, given that more than a week has passed, and now today’s follow-on huzzahs by …

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Lebanon falls

 Sent: Wed 6/11/2008 8:15 PM To: [deleted] Subject: RE: Lebanon Falls. Dear [deleted] and friends, Normally I wouldn’t respond to something like this, but when you wrote that this was “the clearest picture of the situation in Lebanon and the Middle East” that you have seen, I felt it deserved a closer look.  Because it is …

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A century of willful ignorance

 A friend of mine just sent me an interesting article by Ramzy Baroud, about Johns Hagee and McCain:  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=13720  Here’s the first paragraph from Baroud’s article:  A memorable quote in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) still carries a wealth of relevance. He writes, “They own the [holy] land, just the mere land, and that’s …

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Disgusting

 http://www.wyff4.com/news/15948849/detail.html

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You bastards!

 Today’s “You bastards!” letter for all your continued clamoring over Obama’s pastor:  Where is the “fair and balanced” coverage of John McSame’s spiritual advisors? Here’s a bit from a March 12 article in Mother Jones: Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a “war” against the …

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