tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840867179601918652.post1703099181493449185..comments2024-01-08T01:16:37.067-07:00Comments on REVOLUTIONARY SPIRITS: Faith, Politics, Opinion: Spiritually Correct Candidates?Gary Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00832434470111324769noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840867179601918652.post-77919065064672968342008-07-16T09:07:00.000-07:002008-07-16T09:07:00.000-07:00I think the Christian Label has more to do with tr...I think the Christian Label has more to do with <EM>trust</EM> than <EM>faith</EM>.<BR/><BR/>Go to any big city where individuals thrown together from all over, and you'll see people looking to deal with people then can trust and usually the way they identify that is by some shared attribute, language, religion, place of origin. <BR/><BR/>Same goes with clothes and speech and UUs just as guilty. We often associate with those who seem like us symbolically because it's all we have to go on at first when establishing relationships of <EM>trust</EM>.<BR/><BR/>That's all that's going on with this groomer and it's more evidence of the isolation so many feel. There's really not much more to it than that I think.Bill Baarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095486926836836714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840867179601918652.post-75310504247860370902008-07-16T03:32:00.000-07:002008-07-16T03:32:00.000-07:00Confronted with a brutal enemy who blows up Mosque...Confronted with a brutal enemy who blows up Mosques in the name of God, I'd much rather Obama would stand up and say today we're all Muslims.<BR/><BR/>A Muslim in the Green Zone told me just that. He sounded awfully Universalist to me.<BR/><BR/>Here's Hopkins, voicing something similar to Churchill back in 41. If Obama would talk like <A HREF="http://baarswestside.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-and-islam.html" REL="nofollow">this,</A> he would dispell much of this Muslim talk... which frankly is something I hear from him only. It seems very much his straw man.<BR/><BR/><EM>Few dramatists could match the poignant scene when Britain stood alone against the Nazi power that dominated a conquered or fawningly neutral Europe. Roosevelt sent his envoy Harry Hopkins to Churchill. At dinner Hopkins quoted from the Book of Ruth: "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people and their God my God," softly adding, "Even to the end." --From Meachem Franklin and Winston</EM><BR/><BR/>Baghdad will offer Obama the perfect spot for an <EM>Ich bin ein Baghdadi</EM> speech. I hope he has the moral courage to show his Solidarity with some very brave Muslims there.Bill Baarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095486926836836714noreply@blogger.com