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waxnrope · 08-29-2010, 11:12 AM

It may have read to you like your experience of church services.*I* feel that we must be careful lumping all religious customs and beliefs in one basket, just as some POC do not lump all white people as predatory, colonizing asshats.

We are lead now to be polarized. Power will use whatever works to attain its ends. Do the corporate structures, operating behind the scenes in the media and elsewhere, do they really give a rat's behind about G-d, or anything having to do with a deeply considered ethos? What approach has been most successful in changing the minds of people? Truth? Or fear of the Other? What makes the other distinct? Since at least Newt Gingrich, we have come to politics with a posse mentality. The nation has succumbed to being whipped up into a frenzy by those in the background who play us like a seasoned lover. There is no reasoned discourse taking place within this circus of the absurd.

Those "religious" or, better, those who profess a religion, struggle with how to counter this insanity. We have been trained to counter Prop 8 when dealing with the media. When our churches, synagogues, and mosques are picketed by the religious right, we run to support and give voice to the media. The media ignores us too. We are crying out to counter what is being done in our name. There are few ears to hear.

08-29-2010, 11:12 AM	#82
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