I remember Jim Jones - he had that Commie/Christer racket workin'!
It's San Francisco. Not like it's actually part of the US.
"The goal of the four-day conference is to create a spirituality-based platform to counter the religious right, "
Which is totally contrary to the Bibles teaching of 'inclusion' of all people.
You can't be against the 'relgious right' and be 'spiritual'.
Psalm 53:2
Fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." Their deeds are loathsome and corrupt; not one does what is right.
it will be most interesting what 'spirituality' they come up with. That would have to be one that embraces abortion, homosexuality and the absence of prayer.
The devil is very active in California.
"Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side."
:^)
This shouts failure by design. You cannot build a movement and recruit believers with core beliefs. It's also another example of liberal symbolism over substance.
Let's all chant: "Kum-buy-ya"
I doubt that it has anything to do with the Bible. They are going to invent their own religion. Marx said that religion is the opiate of the masses. If you believe that, then it makes sense that you would want to have a religious dogma that you could use to keep your followers in line.
If it leads them to becoming more honorable, more honest, more responsible - that will be fabulous.
They'll connect alright, they just better be ready for reaction.
everyone on the democrat plantation
religious or not
will be getting religion
in time for hillary's run '08.
Gee, the left's tree-hugging, god/goddess self-love, new agey mish-mash not working for them as a unified front? Hmm, how could it with all the self-adoration involved? That is why their attempts to use religion will also fail - too many egos to assuage.
Based on whay my former supervisor used to tell me about her weirdbeard lib "church" in Willow Glen, it sounded like they were making it up as they went along.
All form -- church gave her the opportunity to get all tarted up once a week. No substance.
Yet for now, said UC Berkeley linguistics Professor George Lakoff, spiritual liberals aren't strong enough to use their moral authority to challenge conservatives on the issues of the day, such as Bush's nomination of John Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"No, it's not strong enough now, unless it organizes very quickly," said Lakoff, who has become a favorite among liberals since November for his contention that the left has the right ideas -- it just needs to "frame" issues in a different context.
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Thandeka, a Unitarian Universalist minister from New York who is African American and goes by one name, said she is optimistic that nonwhites -- as well as people living in conservative-voting "red states" -- will eventually join up.
"Once we speak to people about what they're feeling, then they will start relating to us and stop voting against their own self-interest," Thandeka said. "Then we will get back Kansas."
Cross post: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, FaithAction
Anybody read this? Why do the right supposedly get it wrong? Hmmmm....
How much tooling with the religion will the Evangelical's have to do to appeal to the Berkeley new agey spirits? How could it work? Christian values don't typically appeal to them and what will morph out will scarcely be recognizable as Christian.
Lord, am I really supposed to pray for these idiots?
O.K,O.K.,O.K., Here it goes...Lord, only you can fix stupid...