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I wanted to share this. First of all, I looked for a church to call home for a long time, about a year and a half. My wife goes to a very conservative Southern Baptist church, and I knew that wasn't for me. So, I looked at several churches from a few different denominations. I finally settled on a UCC church a couple of months ago, and I've LOVED it. I think you'll see why after you read about the sermon my pastor delivered this past Sunday.
He started talking about Katrina and the awful devistation. Then he talked about how it was avoidable if this country took better care of its poor. He pointed out that most of the people left were not able to leave because they were too poor; they had no where to go or no way to get there. Then, he said (and I remember this close to verbatim):
"There are many in this country who think the greatest moral outrages are that gay people want to get married, or the Supreme Court won't allow some people to display the ten commandments in public, or that scientists want to use stem cells to do research that can lead to cures for awful diseases. You know what? I don't think those things are very important when compared to poverty."
Then he said basically that the bible commands us again and again to take care of our poor, and yet we never heed it. He thinks poverty is one of the greatest moral outrages in our nation; and it's an issue being ignored by the media and what he called, "The Christians you always see in the media," by which I'm pretty sure he means the Christian Right, because they're the only ones we see.
It was such an awesome sermon. I'm sad that my church has less than 1/5 of the members of my wife's ultra conservative, near fundamentalist church of the right wing propaganda machine.
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