Interesting editorial from "Faith-Based" columnist

[ben_thayer]

http://www.detnews.com/2005/editorial/0509/10/D08-309629.htm

[AverageJoe]

1. This is great stuff. Thanks for the post!

It begins:

"Something very important is happening here -- something more than simply a hurricane, or the suffering of thousands who were neglected by their government during a time of great need. Most worldly occurrences reflect deeper truths. What is happening is a gigantic reckoning, as Americans are forced to come to terms with how very, very naked is the emperor who we thought had such incredible clothes."

[scarletlib]

2. great editorial

[Celebration]

3. Not Surprising

She is definitely not into your typical fundie mega church thing anyway. She is an "inner spirit" person, probably thought to be way too new agey for the fundies. She is more of the Oprah type faith based person. I have always liked her.

[asjr]

4. Very powerful. Maybe I can get through the day now.

[sarcasmo]

5. To bad the rest of the right will keep drinking the Faux news

KOOL-AID.

[Bozita]

6. wow! ... and that's Detroit's rightwing newspaper

good stuff

[WhiteTara]

7. Years ago in LA, I listened to Marianne

Williamson frequently. I don't think she is in the least a "fundie". She wrote a book called something like The Worth of A Woman, which was not a Phyllis Schalfly kind of book. You might call her new age.

Thanks for posting the article. The best part, I think, is:

"Fool us once, and maybe their tricks were dirty; fool us twice, maybe their public relations was too good; fool us now, and perhaps we just deserve to be fooled. From war to hurricanes, oh, America, the alarm bells of needless human suffering are going off everywhere.

A nation that refuses to wake up at this point is in a dangerous slumber. The nightmares are upon us now. They will remain until our eyes are opened and we have awakened to the truth."

She also offers a way to move forward

"... What might be new -- what I sense might be happening -- is that people are waking up to it now. And as soon as we wake up, then the pattern will end.

Abraham Lincoln said there is not too much evil any American government can perpetrate, as long as the people remain vigilant. He was referring to the fact that we have federal elections every two years, through which we can replace the entirety of the House of Representatives and one-third of the U.S. Senate.

The ultimate accountability conversation is written into the U.S. Constitution; it is called elections. At this particular juncture, that means the mid-term elections of 2006."

But I say, don't wait
IMPEACH BUSH AND SEND THEM ALL TO THE HAGUE

[I Have A Dream]

8. Thank you for posting this! I love Marianne Williamson! n/t

[struggle4progress]

9. "A nation that refuses to wake up at this point is in a dangerous slumber.

The nightmares are upon us now. They will remain until our eyes are opened and we have awakened to the truth."


She obviously hasn't thought about the blackbox pox upon our election system, though ...