"'Dirty Harry' Christians key to Katrina efforts"

[Bluebear]

Christian organizations are doing wonderful things in the delta. So are other groups. Why must some like this writer take the opportunity, then, to slam the ACLU, the press, etc.? Do your good works and shut up about it. "Christians are the Dirty Harrys of social service in today's America," my foot. (Again, no offense to DU Christian brethren and sistren, who do not feel the need to pat themselves on the back quite like this writer and his ilk.)

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Where's the ACLU? This co-mingling of government and religious resources must stop! Church groups, asked by local and state officials to take charge of feeding programs at government shelters like the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, also held worship services and passed out Bibles. Pastors prayed with evacuees, offering spiritual as well as material help. The horror!

Where is the press vigilance? Instead of exposing this blatant attempt to destroy the separation of church and state, reporters quoted New Orleans evacuees such as Dorothy Lewis welcoming the Christian service because she (obviously with false consciousness) believed that God saved her family: "I can't go to sleep for thanking him. I wake up in the morning thanking him."

Here's why the usual critics are generally silent: Christians are the Dirty Harrys of social service in today's America. The 1971 film "Dirty Harry" starred Clint Eastwood as a San Francisco cop hated by the liberal mayor but called upon when the going gets rough. In the movie, the Eastwood character gains his nickname because he takes on the most difficult tasks the city can offer. "Now you know why they call me 'Dirty Harry,'" he tells his partner after heroically saving one person from death: "Every dirty job that comes along."

Many people, including Muslims and atheists, are getting their hands dirty in post-Katrina help. So are government and nonprofit professionals. But everyone knows that church groups are key.
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/marvinolasky/mo20050915.shtml

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. townhall.com. 'nuff said.

[joemurphy]

2. Just dole out the soup, Dirty Harry. I don't need your Bible. n/t

[shaniqua6392]

3. To help those in need is a wonderful thing.

To brag about how much you helped them is a sin. God hates a martyr. There are many people helping the victims. I have the utmost respect for those groups I do not hear about, but that I know are out there doing good things. It is not only the church groups who have helped. It is the entire country and other countries as well. I doubt that the ACLU is going to object to the handing out of bibles in a shelter full of evacuees. But, Christians are not the only ones helping here.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. But he isn't talking about Christians

He's talking about whiners who call themselves Christians.

What kind of Christian would hold a grudge against an ACLU member and then sarcastically mock them when they didn't vex the Fellowship of (so-called) Christian Whiners?

--p!

[Bluebear]

7. Totally narcissitic, ego-based "help"

How pathetic that one rescues, THEN needs adulation for said rescue.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. The ACLU is too busy...

defending the rights of shits like this to write their swill to fool around with anyone helping out in the flooding.

So, what's this bigmouth Marvin Olasky done for the hurricane victims lately?

[Bluebear]

6. Word on the ACLU TB nt