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Woke Salvation Army surrendered without a fight
American Thinker ^ | 1 Dec, 2021 | Kevin McGary

Posted on 12/01/2021 3:59:05 AM PST by MtnClimber

What once was a principles-focused Salvation Army has become an ideologically "woke" army, marching to the regressive whims of culture.

What once was a principles-focused Salvation Army has become an ideologically "woke" army, marching to the regressive whims of culture.

For generations, the Salvation Army embodied charity, compassion, and the hope of salvation to a broken world. Over the years, I've embraced the opportunity to volunteer for the Salvation Army by serving meals to the poor and needy and by gleefully ringing the Christmas bell for Red Kettle donations. I loved the many acts of broad and nonstop charity and goodwill the Salvation Army extended to all of humanity, as it was a reminder of the Gospel mission. The Salvation Army had honorable principles and stood reliably strong as an institution in my mind. Until now.

Salvation Army documents reveal that the organization has gone woke. Instead of appreciating all people groups and continuing on an unbiased and uncompromising mission to serve all people compassionately, the Salvation Army now thinks it's somehow okay to view people through the lens of "race." Somewhere deep in its leadership, the Army saw the enemy and embraced it.

Race consideration and connotations are an obvious outcome of Critical Race Theory (CRT), or adjunct theology (Liberation Theology, for instance). Viewing people by race or class is wholly antithetical to any organization committed to providing compassionate and unbiased services to any and all people or groups in need. Woke schemes see everything about human culture in one paradigm: "oppressors vs. oppressed" or "victimizers vs. victims." Without exception, the oppressors and victimizers are "White" by definition.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: hollowedout; skinwalker; wokeism
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1 posted on 12/01/2021 3:59:05 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Well, good luck with that!


2 posted on 12/01/2021 3:59:16 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I heard they retracted that part of the training and said “Oh, it was only for our employees.”

As if that makes a whit of difference.


3 posted on 12/01/2021 4:00:42 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: MtnClimber
"Somewhere deep in its leadership, the Army saw the enemy and embraced it."

So sad.

Was saddened when Chick-Fil-A went Woke, but that's a for-profit concern, and if I'm getting "fast-food" (rarely), it's still the best around.

But SA was strictly not-for-profit, indeed their only "profit" was winning souls for Christ.

The same evil spirit that wormed its way into main-line Christian denominations is at work everywhere.

"Even so Lord Jesus, come quickly."

4 posted on 12/01/2021 4:09:01 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: MtnClimber

i’m putting a note in our kettle that says Train THIS.


5 posted on 12/01/2021 4:09:12 AM PST by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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To: MtnClimber

The current leadership has stained the red-kettle brand.


6 posted on 12/01/2021 4:13:56 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Psalm 73

Look up!! Maranatha!!!


7 posted on 12/01/2021 4:15:04 AM PST by FES0844
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To: Psalm 73

The SA bell ringer was out at the local Walmart yesterday afternoon. I went prepared with my letter to the local SA leadership. I expressed my displeasure and that I would be withholding future donations or labor from them. The bell ringer asked me what the piece of paper was and I explained to her my position. She said she understood and had mixed feelings about the decision herself.


8 posted on 12/01/2021 4:15:26 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (This will be a hot extract.)
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To: MtnClimber

Jesus’s salvation is not woke. These wokesters are fast asleep in a dystopian nightmare.


9 posted on 12/01/2021 4:15:59 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: rlmorel
As if that makes a whit of difference.

Whit supremacist???

10 posted on 12/01/2021 4:18:25 AM PST by cockroach_magoo
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To: MtnClimber

The SA’s website says it is fine with same sex relationships and provides BENEFITS to those employees in same sex relationships. It has been like this for several years.

https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/the-lgbtq-community-and-the-salvation-army/

This alone is enough to jettison them as any kind of Christian org.


11 posted on 12/01/2021 4:32:05 AM PST by fwdude
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To: rlmorel

Take a lump of coal and drop it into the kettle. Enough of that and they will get the message.


12 posted on 12/01/2021 4:34:52 AM PST by Truth29
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To: rlmorel

Money on retirement is tight. They made it very easy for me going forward. And I will be writing them a letter telling them so.


13 posted on 12/01/2021 4:35:57 AM PST by navymom1
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To: fwdude; All

“Our hiring practices are open to all, and we provide the same benefits to opposite-sex and same-sex couples.”

https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/the-lgbtq-community-and-the-salvation-army/

Straight from the horse’s mouth.


14 posted on 12/01/2021 4:36:13 AM PST by fwdude
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To: Psalm 73

Maranatha!


15 posted on 12/01/2021 4:37:04 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: MtnClimber

Here is a link to the SalvationArmy’s woke document on racism, which they then denied the existence of by removing it. Of course the internet is forever.

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Salvation-Army-Lets-Talk-About-Racism.pdf


16 posted on 12/01/2021 4:42:45 AM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: MtnClimber

All you have to do is look at the Salvation Army’s website.
https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/national_advisory_board/
MS. ALVA ADAMS-MASON
Director, Multicultural Business Alliance & Strategy
Toyota Motor North America
Dallas, Texas
https://www.ibwppi.org/board-of-director2/alva-adams-mason/
“she is a member of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education & Leadership Institute’s “21st Century Council”. Mason also spearheads Toyota’s relationships with and support of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. “

They willingly named a known racist to their advisory board along with the standard corporate chieftans who are usually leftists.

BTW- this is the way the Boy Scouts were taken out. Corporations offered money for board positions. When enough leftists were on board, the leftists took it out.


17 posted on 12/01/2021 4:44:40 AM PST by Varda
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To: MtnClimber

All you have to do is look at the Salvation Army’s website.
https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/national_advisory_board/
MS. ALVA ADAMS-MASON
Director, Multicultural Business Alliance & Strategy
Toyota Motor North America
Dallas, Texas
https://www.ibwppi.org/board-of-director2/alva-adams-mason/
“she is a member of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education & Leadership Institute’s “21st Century Council”. Mason also spearheads Toyota’s relationships with and support of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. “

They willingly named a known racist to their advisory board along with the standard corporate chieftans who are usually leftists.

BTW- this is the way the Boy Scouts were taken out. Corporations offered money for board positions. When enough leftists were on board, the leftists took it out.


18 posted on 12/01/2021 4:44:42 AM PST by Varda
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To: Truth29
-- Take a lump of coal and drop it into the kettle. Enough of that and they will get the message. --

Would probably trigger them to add woke climate science to their repertoire.

19 posted on 12/01/2021 4:46:02 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: MtnClimber

go to takechargemn.com for an example of where the SA should have ended up.


20 posted on 12/01/2021 4:50:36 AM PST by Tom Bombadil
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