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"Me, Too," said jeanne
University of Wisconsin, Parkside Things I'm planning to talk about: religion, healthcare, prisons, and how they're all interconnected. Will put up David Brooks' Obama's Christian Realism. Wish we could make the Republicans in Congress think about the column Brooks had in the NY Times on p. A37 on Tuesday, December 15, 2009.
Added December 18, 2009:
And I wished even more that I could get Congress to listen when I read the letters to the editor (NY Times, Friday, December 18, 2009, p.A 34.) on Brooks' column this morning. To a letter, they agreed that wars, though evil, must sometimes be coped with, even by those who would prefer to avoid them. They spoke of the blurred line between morality as seen through theocracy and as seen through governance. I guess I presumed that Brooks spoke of "Christian Realism," because of the Republican alliance in the last decade or so with the Christian Right, and because both he and Obama were Christian. I'm so used to people insisting that their God is the only God and the "right" and "true" God that I don't even bother to be upset about the un-goodness of such exclusion of all peoples who do not share the same beliefs.
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Created: December 17, 2009
Latest update: December 18, 2009
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