[Vision2020] Melynda a Marxist? I'm shocked

[keely emerinemix]

>From the prosperous and booming Puget Sound area, which I can't wait to 
leave, may I offer these observations:

It astounds me when I'm caffeinated and merely puzzles me when I'm not how 
the religious right insists that government "stand up for righteousness" 
when it comes to toppling Saddam, banning gay marriage, clamping down on 
stem cell funding and excoriating wayward, adulterous Presidents, but 
insists that government has no particular need or duty to stand for 
righteousness in regard to the poor -- many of whom suffer from the current 
and lingering effects of bad government policy.  Sinful policy, some would 
say.

And if we demand that the Nation mirror whatever view we have of the 
righteousness of God in matters of the bedroom and yet insist on its right 
to ignore, with God's encouragement, the more widespread damage coming from 
the boardroom, it seems we run the risk of appearing more than a little out 
of touch.  Callous, some would say.

And, finally, if we acknowledge without shame that churches don't do enough 
to alleviate the suffering of the poor, and yet reserve an enormous portion 
of our outrage  not toward poverty but government's attempts to intervene in 
it, we can't help but seem rather cruel and atavistic.  Goatlike, some would 
say.

And what would Jesus say?  "Whatsoever you've done to the least of my 
brethren, that you've done unto me."  I'm sure he would find the bleating 
sound of our best libertarian arguments more than a little pathetic and our 
attempts to separate individual and corporate (national) righteousness to 
our benefit somewhat less than amusing.

keely emerine mix

>From: DonaldH675 at aol.com
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Melynda a Marxist?  I'm shocked
>Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:44:32 EST
>
>Visionaries:
>Dale C., writes:
>"It appears that Melinda has drunk deeply from the poisoned well of 
>Marxism.
>This is an old and familiar saw – but one that doesn’t cut it. As I 
>said
>before -- the only place where such ideologies thrive any more are in 
>American
>Universities. "
>Let me counter your insight Dale with another.  Melynda has drunk deeply 
>from
>the New Testament wherein she learned, and believes the words of Matthew
>25:40.
>I don't know if that sentiment is thriving in American universities, but
>judging from the money and privilege grasping that is routine business in 
>the
>Libertarian, and Right-wing of the Republican Party, not to mention a local 
>church
>whose initials are Christ Church, I am pleased that her education (both 
>home
>training and academic) is firmly in the socialist and Marxist camp.
>Best,
>Rose Huskey
>"One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There 
>are
>just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between
>doing something and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan
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