A Call to Action to the Progressive Faith Community

Vote ALL Your Values ^ | 10/6/04

[ladyinred]

Non Partisan, Right!!!

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Yikes! I did another quick search on Pax Christi:

Catholic Culture : Site Review : Pax Christi USA
... Several articles encourage Pax Christi members to lobby to overturn the ban on the
homosexual ministry of dissident New Ways Ministry founders, Sr. ...
www.catholicculture.org/sites/site_view.cfm?recnum=1157 - 34k - Cached - Similar pages

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I did a search as well. Holy cow! This keeps getting worse, And I'm only on the second name on the list.

http://d21c.com/of-christ/religiousleft.htm
Terry Mattingly
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This is Progress?

In this article the author talks about a conference -sponsored by the "Center for American Progress" - held in Washington for the religious left at which staffers for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops "huddled with mainstream Jewish leaders and Muslim progressives" and "moderate" evangelicals conferred with officials from the National Council of Churches. One speaker says that 90% of attendees were pro-abortion rights and pro-gay rights. They even object to Jesus' words where He said, "No man cometh unto the Father but by Me" (Jn. 14:6).
This brings up some interesting questions: How can they call themselves "Christians" when they reject the words of Christ? Are they wiser and more knowledgable than their Creator? Jesus said, "A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher" (Lk. 6:40). They call themselves "Progressives". Have they progressed past the Head, the Teacher, the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Originator of christianity? Are they telling the Lord Jesus Christ what He can and cannot say? Was His death on the cross unnecessary? How strange!

[afnamvet]

REV. preceding each name must mean revision.

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This is heartbreaking.

Catholic Culture : Site Review : Pax Christi USA
http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/dissent/dissorg.htm

Catholic Culture : Site Review : Pax Christi USA
... Several articles encourage Pax Christi members to lobby to overturn the ban on the
homosexual ministry of dissident New Ways Ministry founders, Sr. ...
www.catholicculture.org/sites/site_view.cfm?recnum=1157 - 34k - Cached - Similar pages

RE: John Posest, Center for American Progress, former President Clinton's chief of staff.
http://d21c.com/of-christ/religiousleft.htm
Terry Mattingly

NETWORK: Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Social Justice ... National Association of Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries Family ... Jericho, California legislative Issues Network, Catholic Social Justice Lobby Bread for ...
www.oakdiocese.org/pastoral/SJ.htm - 19k - Cached - Similar pages


Dissenting Organizations ... homosexuality is not acceptable whatsoever, nor that gays and lesbians ... NETWORK, A group, billing itself as a Catholic Social Justice Lobby, was founded by ...
www.ourladyswarriors.org/dissent/dissorg.htm - 45k - Cached - Similar pages

[Matchett-PI]

"Rev. Jim Wallis, Editor, Sojourners Magazine" ~ madprof98

Saul Alinsky - The Religious Left follows him "religiously". Their magazine: Sojourners
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=Soj0003&article=000311

Rules for Radicals - By Saul Alinsky
http://www.e911.com/exacts/EA051.html

Reveille for Radicals - By Saul Alinsky
http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/support/Assignments/alinsky.html

In the 60's, as a radical mentality herself at Wellesley, Hillary Clinton was so enamored of Saul Alinsky and his *methods* she wrote her senior thesis under his mentoring. She uses his "how to fool the useful idiots" tactics to this very day, and will use them in her quest for the presidency.

She's in for a surprise. We have her number.

As an aside ... at the "Sojourner Magazine" website linked above, a little window pops up asking the trick question, "Is Jesus a Republican or a DemocRAT?".

Wrong question.

The question they know better than to ask is, "Is Jesus a moral RELATIVIST?"

[tbpiper]

Exactly what is "Progressive Faith" anyway?

It's like a bible filled with blank pages. Lots of room to right your own 'truth'. I a more biblical frame of reference it's "white wahed tombs full of dead men's bones".

[Disambiguator]

Whenever you see the words "Social Justice" just train yourself to insert the word Apostasy.

Likewise, when you see the word "progressive", insert the word "communist". It's a code word used by the left. That's why there is a particular auto insurance company that I will not do business with.

[Esther Ruth]

Here in the Illinois suburbs I am trying to understand some Christians at Baptist Churches who have chosen Obama over Keyes. Baptist Church pastors standing behind pro-abortion candidates???? I think it is like Robin Hood Religion to them. They will and are putting everything and anything aside, putting aside their Lord and His Word, their soul and vote goes to who ever will give them the most cash. They are being tested and sadly are making the wrong choice, denying their Lord for cash.

[kcvl]

All the usual communists.

[samadams2000]

"Progressive faith"?? Thats like New Coke. Idiotic on its face and due to fail.

[kcvl]

John Podesta, who was chief of staff for President Bill Clinton, is the leader of the Center for American Progress, which sponsored the event. He said exploring his Catholic faith has only made him more committed to liberal politics. Podesta's faith also has helped him identify the forces that he believes must be defeated.

"In the past 20 years, we've seen the emergence of religious leaders who tried to dictate legislation and public policy from their particular set of religious beliefs," he said. "The religious leaders who attracted the widest attention were often those with the narrowest minds. Rather than use their faith in God to bring Americans together, they chose to use it to drive us apart"

Podesta is a disgusting piece of trash.

[kcvl]

Podesta and the Clinton crowd DID dictate legislation and public policy WITHOUT any religious beliefs unless you can count *crewing around with women or lying a "religious belief".

[detsaoT]

The NCC is a spinoff of the World Council of Churches, a communist front group. I'd be willing to bet dollars to dimes that you could trace every single one of the groups listed here back in some way to the Socialist International...

Check this out for some additional information about the NCC. If you're a member of any of the mainline Protestant denominations in the United States, you're FUNDING them, and THEY are funding SOCIALISTS.

[TASMANIANRED]

It means you are a earth worshiping pagan, a unitarian or a spiritual atheist.

[Noumenon]

The clergy of oppression - up to their usual.

[Old Professer]

I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up; a Gay, self-ordained high priestess of a transgendered, special-needs gang of marauding daredevils driving highly-modified supercharged wheelchairs with ape hangers and solid gold handicapped parking plaques front and rear.

[docbnj]

The notice is good: it gives us a concise list of left-wing activist groups fronting behind the mask of religion.

These people are pitiful and foolish, but they don't give up, and just keep gnawing away like termites.

If your church is a member of the National Council of Churches, change that.

By the way, these are the same people who tell us not to mix religion and public policy.

[detsaoT]

Boy, it's been a while since I've even thought about these jokers. I had totally forgotten how lofty the NCC really is. Here are some of the extremely weighty issues they've tackled:

Boycott Taco Bell
(Perhaps I'm just a degenerate Southerner, but what, praytell, are "Immokalees?")

Boycott Mount Olive Pickles
"Whereas, all people have been created in the image of God, redeemed through Jesus Christ, and called to share in a ministry of justice that shapes our world according to God’s intention of shalom" I mean, we all know that the LORD wouldn't be able to judge ANYTHING without our help, right? Sheesh!

Public Schools = Godly Education
(Well, sorta... We've got to "bridge the achievement gap," which is entirely the fault of Whitey.)

Drug prices are evil
...therefore, we should beg the President to nationalize the pricing policies of ALL pharmaceutical products sold in the USA.

Israel Bad, Arabs good
...as if we didn't see this coming for a bazillion miles.

The U.S. deserved 9/11
(Okay, I'm exaggerating their words somewhat, but they definitely seem to be trying to make the "We had it coming" argument... Jerks.)

We Support The Intifada
(Or I could just call this "Israel Bad, Arabs Good" again. This was in 2000, when Arafart first started his little rebellion... er, I mean Israel unjustly attacked a truly peaceful people.)

Socialized Healthcare is of the LORD
I mean, why should we put ANY faith in Him, when we can just trust a bureaucrat, right?

Save the Trees
...Stop printing Bibles! (It's not like the NCC ever uses them, anyway...)

Landmines are evil
(Oh, I forgot. Only those evil YANKEE landmines are evil.)

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I just can't help but roll my eyes through every single one of these atrocities. This group is definitely full of REAL spiritual GIANTS. Sheesh. Paging Bishop Spong... Your spaceship is here.

I'm all for packing up the NCC and shipping them to Canada. Anyone want to organize a moving party for them? ;)

And seriously, if you or anyone you know is a member of a church which supports this claptrap, shame on you. I'm an ex-Methodist because of pap like this. I'm much happier where I am now.

I repeat:
THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SUPPORTS COMMUNISM.

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Thank God this is all coming out...and before the election!!!!!!! A lot of these groups provide innocuous looking, 'bipartisan' voter information on tables outside of churches. I am on the look out.