Growing up in a secular country I am finding the growing desire to turn the United States into a "Christian Nation" mystifying and troubling. I have many questions for those who pose this idea such as:
What is your final solution to this Christian Nation you want?
What would you propose my Jewish, Buddhist, Atheist and Agnostic friends do? Should we all pretend to accept Jesus to avoid offending your beliefs? Wouldn't such placating be even more offensive in it's insincerity as well as call into question the strength of you own beliefs if they are so fragile as to be threatened by other ideas?
Would you take the extreme measure of isolating all non-Christians to reservations as was done the the "heathen" natives of our land where we would be free to exercise our own beliefs free from persecution, but without the infrastructure, liberties and opportunities of this nation?
Diving into greater detail, would we banish all gift shops from the temples of God as Jesus had done? Would we turn the other cheek from foreign attacks by offering forgiveness, or would we commit the sin of imposing judgement ourselves?
Do Jesus' words mean nothing to those who profess to follow him? What passage in the Bible justifies their quest for political powers to have rule over the world? Maybe this one:
A tempting offer for the Christian Nationalists I guess.
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On a related note:
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech at Reichstag, Berlin, January 30, 1934.
and
"We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations:
we have stamped it out."
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech in Berlin on 24 Oct. 1933
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ReplyDeleteWhy stay bitter when you can rightly take out your frustrations in a peaceful way on these Republican party contributors and get needed legislation, and an end to the war and to get lower gas prices.
Have you had enough of petitions, rallies, and protests that have not worked to end war, and to get needed legislation enacted into law? The Republican party and their conservative members appears insulated from the public and unresponsive to the public. However their contributors do not appear insulated from the public and can collapse under pressure to a withering telephone campaign threatening mass boycotts of their products until they get their friends at the GOP to do what we want. Simply silently boycotting these companies will not do enough. You need to get as many people as you can to take the political fight to these companies that aid the Republican party.
I have created these campaigns to peacefully take back America. After you have made these phone calls please send me email to info@democratz.org with the subject CALLED.
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Get as many people to make these phone calls.
Call Republican contributor and war contractor General Electric Corporation at 800 386 1215 or 203 373 2211 and tell the person who
answers, that you want the GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to get Bush to end the war in Iraq and then Bush resign with Cheney and until that happens you will not buy any GE products and that you will tell your friends about this. Then call a local appliance store that sells GE appliances and tell the person you will not buy any GE products
from their store until they can convince the GE CEO to convince George W Bush to end the war and then resign with Cheney.
Call Republican contributor Rite Aid Pharmacies at 800 325 3737 and tell the person that you want the Rite Aid CEO to get the congress
and the President to enact HR 676 single payer universal health care and repeal Medicare Part D and place the drug benefit in Medicare Part
B covering 80% of the cost of drugs with no extra premiums, no extra deductibles, no means tests, no coverage gaps, and remove the means test for Medicare Part B and until that happens, you won't buy ANYTHING from Rite Aid.
Call Republican contributor Wendy's restaurants at 614 764 3553 and tell the person in that you want their CEO to get the congress
and the President to enact a $10/HR MIN. WAGE into law and until this happens you will not go to a Wendy's Restaurant.
Call your local Exxon/Mobil gas station and tell the manager that you will not get your car repaired there, nor will you buy gasoline there
until their parent company sets their price so that they can sell you gasoline for $1.75 a gallon. Then only do business with other gas
stations. We will no longer stand for $3 a gallon gasoline.
Kentucky Residents:
Call General Electric Appliances Corporation in Louisville at 502 452 4311 and other appliance stores that sell GE products and demand that they get Senator Mitch McConnell to get an end to the Iraq war and for Bush and Cheney to resign and until that happens you will not buy any GE refrigerators, stoves, televisions, dishwashers, ovens, lightbulbs, etc. Get as many Kentucky residents to make these phone calls.
After you make these calls you can also call Mitch McConnell's office and tell his office that you have called GE in Lousiville and won't
buy their products until Mitch McConnell gets an end to the war and gets Bush and Cheney to resign.
General Electric Appliances
9500 Williamsburg Office Plaza
Louisville, KY 40222
USA
tel: 800 626 2000
tel: 502 452 4311
502 452 4313
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