[Vision2020] The Ku Klux Klan Seeks Members From the Palouse

Mon Apr 2 20:48:53 PDT 2012

A Semitic Jew from the lowest social caste in Palestine who was  of dubious parentage, worked as an itinerant laborer, was homeless as an adult, mixed freely with and loved those he was religiously forbidden to and socially not supposed to, and who, while living under Roman occupation, nonetheless preached radical, active non-violence AND equated himself with Yahweh, declaring He was the long-awaited Messiah and the gateway to eternal life while eschewing the power of temporal politics -- yeah, it was an unlikely, although I believe prophesied, start for the One I worship.  

But those who followed Christ then not only experienced real persecution -- as opposed to the profound oppression of, say, not being allowed to meet for Bible Club on school property -- but also exercised a measure of courage and discernment utterly lacking in those individuals and congregations among whom the Klan and others like them flourished.  Any man, movement, message or ministry that embraces or acknowledges Jesus Christ as its head has to demonstrate behavior that agrees with his Gospel and his teachings.  It's not equivocal, it's not difficult, it's not an ethical dilemma beyond the capacity of any layperson.  And it's not optional.  

By that simple standard, no Christian man or woman or child above the age of, say, five, can walk with Christ and march with the Klan.  They can remain Baptist deacons, go to Bible study, lead a prayer group, evangelize the neighbors and bake cookies for the Ladies Auxiliary, but that has nothing to do with walking with Christ.  Any hate, and a doctrine that requires hate on the basis of any ontological characteristic or expressed idea, is antithetical to Christianity.

That it's so often found a toehold in Christiandom is tragic beyond words and obscene beyond comprehension.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The Ku Klux Klan Seeks Members From the Palouse
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:31:35 -0500

The historical Jesus (Esau) would be anathema to these 
people. He would not look like them, think like them, or have a message like 
this. He likely would look like our those now targeted as Muslim Terrorists, 
would accept everyone, was a Jew, and preached loving kindness. Yet religious 
groups still lead the way in usurping Him as the way to Heaven. 

Sad. Glad I am an enlightened Pagan.......
Debi R-S

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  keely emerinemix 

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  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The Ku Klux 
  Klan Seeks Members From the Palouse

  Tom, once again we're indebted to you and "Moscow Cares," as well 
  as "Not On The Palouse," for your work in keeping us all posted about the 
  hate-driven threats to freedom, civility, and decency that arise from the 
  worst elements of society.   This is chilling -- not that Tom Trail, 
  a decent man if ever there was one, received it (as opposed to, say, my 
  hairdresser receiving it), but that such filth continues to propagate.  

I've said it before, I'll say it now, and I'll probably say it 'til 
  the day I die:  The Christian Church, the Body of Christ in the United 
  States, is largely responsible for the birth, growth, and continued presence 
  of the Klan and other white supremacy groups.  Virtually every 
  manifestation of the Klan, from its inception in the 1920s as an 
  anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish "fraternity," was begun by white, male "Christians" 
  who trumpeted their Baptist or Methodist or Holy Temple of Perpetual Glory 
  membership -- and went unchallenged by the Gospel-loving disciples among 
  them.  This cancer could have been excised early on if the Church had 
  been committed to the truth of the Gospel and cast its lot with Christ rather 
  than wallowing in waters of privilege, hate, ignorance, violence, and 
  bigotry.   But it wasn't; in fact, it was "Christians" who helped in 
  its spread, and its the Church now that is left with the uncomfortable reality 
  that its silence then and its largely impotent reaction to hate now has left a 
  stain on the Body of Christ that will last 'til the end.

This happened 
  on our watch.  Versions of it that pop up here and there, particularly in 
  the area we all live in, continue and flourish.  The growth of racial, 
  sexual, classist bigotry is undeniable -- and where it's found in the "Church" 
  that claims the name of Christ, it must be confronted by others who claim the 
  Name.  

My Church -- not my individual congregation, but the 
  Christian Church in the U.S. -- has been guilty of allowing what our Savior 
  never would.  How odd it is that breaking from the silence and 
  acquiescence to evil too often found in the institutional Church might well, 
  for some of us, be a significant step in moving closer to Christ.  It's 
  my duty and my privilege, then, as a Christ-disciple, to fight this 'til the 
  very end.  I don't want to have to explain to Him on judgment day why I 
  felt that "tolerance" or silence or rationalizing it all away was the path I 
  chose.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

  From: moscowcares at moscow.com
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:54:13 -0700
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Subject: [Vision2020] The Ku 
  Klux Klan Seeks Members From the Palouse

  Greetings -

  On March 31, 2012, Idaho State 
  Representative Tom Trail received the following introduction and membership 
  application.  The envelope and its contents indicate that it had 
  originated from an office of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization 
  based on hate, in defiance of everything the people of Latah County know and 
  believe of Representative Trail.

  Downloadable copies of the flyer and envelope may be accessed within the 
  "Not On The Palouse" website at:

  http://www.notonthepalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm

  Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . ,

  "Moscow Cares"
  http://www.MoscowCares.com

  Tom Hansen
  Moscow, Idaho

  "If not us, who?
  If not now, when?"

  - Unknown

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