[Jolly Rodgers]

Is YOUR church one of the 1400 who is calling for a pause so the Taliban can gear up to kill more Americans? If so, you might want to have a word with them.

[Jean S]

Washington Association of Churches

Member Denominations

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African Methodist Episcopal,

Pacific NW  Conference

American Baptist Churches of the Northwest

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Northwest Region

Church of the Brethren

Oregon/WA District

Episcopal Church

Diocese of Olympia

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Eastern Washington/Idaho Synod

Northwest Washington Synod

Southwest Washington Synod

Presbyterian Church(USA)

Synod of Alaska-Northwest

United Church of Christ

Washington/N.Idaho Conference

United Methodist Church

Pacific Northwest Annual Conference

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Cooperating Member Denominations

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African Methodist Episcopal Zion

Cascade District

Episcopal Church

Diocese of Spokane

Roman Catholic Church

Archdiocese of Seattle

Diocese of Spokane

Diocese of Yakima

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Cooperating Ecumenical Partners

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Associated Ministries of Tacoma/Pierce County (click here)
     The Rev. David T. Alger, Executive Director
Associated Ministries of Thurston County  (click here)
     Ms. Kathy Erlandson, Executive Director
Church Council of Greater Seattle (click here)
     The Rev. Tom Quigley, President Director
Church Women United, Washington/N. Idaho (click here)
     Ms. Twila Lewis, State President
Church World Service, Pacific NW Region (click here)
     Ms. Lynn Magnuson,  Executive Director
Gorge Ecumenical Ministries
      The Rev. Joan Wilkins, Executive Director (click here)
The Greater Vancouver Interfaith Association (360)576-1157
     Mr. John Berger, Executive Director
Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center (click here)
     Sr. Linda Haydock, Executive Director
Interfaith Alliance of Washington State (click here)
     The Rev. Walter John Boris, President
Interfaith Association of Snohomish County (click here)
     Ms. Janet Pope
Spokane Council of Ecumenical Ministries (click here)
     The Rev. Ron Green, Executive Director
Yakima Association of Churches   (509)248-1911
     The Rev. Tom Royce, Executive Director

[JD86]

The UN World Food Program estimates that Afghanistan needs nearly 1,900 tons of food distributed every day. Since the attacks began about a month ago, the United Nations has increased shipments from around 770 tons a day to about more than 1,500 tons daily.

So since the bombing started, the Afghanis have been getting more food? So the churches are against this? The Blue Zone really kills me with their lack of logic. The Afghanis need 1,900 tons of food daily. The UN is sending 1,500 tons daily plus the food being dropped by the US. Where was the concern of the churches last year when the Afghanis were getting much less food and the Taliban was starving the people?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I'm Catholic.

But I asked our priest if he thought some people have to get their earthly justice at the point of a sword?

He wasn't thrilled with the question, but I got the impression he wanted to say yes but got the word from above (hierarchy, not the Lord) to stay off that topic.

When he stopped by my work later that week I apologized for putting him on the spot in front of all the other flock. He said "no problem, I don't have any problem with the question, just didn't want to answer it off the top of my head and leave people with the wrong impression.

He said we have the right to defend ourselves and the church recognizes it. They just can't endorse war.

[NC Conservative]

BOMBING MAKES ME VERY HAPPY,VERY HAPPY INDEED

[evolved_rage]

This article is a strong argument why people should be in God's house seven days a week, rather than going to an incorporated 501C on Saturday/Sunday.

[Skibane]

Is YOUR church one of the 1400 who is calling for a pause so the Taliban can gear up to kill more Americans? If so, you might want to have a word with them.

Instead of putting an offering in the collection plate, you might consider leaving a little note instead that says you've prefer not to subsidize this kind of propaganda.

[laconic]

Another reason why mainline Protestants have left their churches in droves over the past three decades; their clergy has found hiding places for 60s leftovers.

[abner]

The letter points out that relief organizations say as many as 7.5 million people may face food shortages or starvation if the groups can't distribute food within Afghanistan.

Awwwwwwww. What to do, what to do? Hmmmm, maybe they should have stopped the terrorists that massacred 5,000 people in the states.

[doug from upland]

Oh, from the title I thought they wanted us to stop bombing Washington churches. Fine, let them get on board.

[Waco]

Now, if we had one of those "transporters" ala Star Trek, we could dump all the wreckage from the WTC on Afghonestan. PLUS a few commie NCC types!

[Congressman Billybob]

I assume that the "high-minded" pastors who put forth this pap are dumb as a box of rocks on the history of Middle-Eastern Wars. If they did a little homework, they would find that the 1967 Yom Kippur War started by Arab and Muslim nations against Isreal, was launched during Ramadan as well. That's why, in the East, it is called "The Ramadan War."

So the enemy in this war does not give a rat's *ss about religious concerns when it gets down to killing people. That's their decision. They can live with it, or die with it.

As for the men and women of the cloth in Washington State, here's the deal. The Generals won't tell them how to preach sermons. They won't tell the Generals how to fight wars. Fair enough?

The (More er Less) Honorable Billybob,
cyberCongressman from Western Carolina

Click here and go to "ALCU Watch" for "The Law of War," a detailed legal discussion of how the US declares war, both historically and in this instance.

For a clear discussion of the difference between what the US can constitutionally do in wartime with aliens (but NOT with US citizens of foreign extraction), see my book, Manzanar, published in 1988.

[henbane]

I wonder if anyone at all among the hierarchy of The Washington Association of Churches has seen information detailing the horrors being prepared for us by bin Laden, Al-Qaeda and their fanatical muslim following?

In the face of this nightmare reality, any pause is not only absurd, but suicidal.

What is required now is a poweful step-up in the level of violence applied to these demons.

[The Al-Qaeda's Killing Manual] details targets such as water and food supplies, and advocates maximising public panic by poisoning medicine, thereby jeopardising treatment of the sick and injured.

The very essence of Evil!

Revealed: the Bloody Pages of Al-Qaeda's Killing Manual

[over3Owithabrain]

I figured the PCUSA would have a hand in this letter. My wife and I escaped that denomination several years ago, opting for PCA and other conservative churches. We still have many friends in there who are pretty conservative, but you can see how the teaching (or lack thereof) they are getting from PCUSA is holding them back. For instance, in the first week or so after 9/11, they were all for a swift and just response from America. Now they are wishy-washy about it, no doubt from the brainwashing they get every Sunday.

[MistrX]

Time for the Nancy-boys to step aside and let our men do their work.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I gave up on being a United Methodist a while ago. Any ideas about how to be a non-UN-affiliated Christian these days?