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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>God is coming back and she is pissed!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m straight, but I’m not
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>We could learn a lot from crayons: some are
sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are
different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>keely emerinemix<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, December 20, 2004
12:58 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">vision2020@moscow.com</st1:PersonName>;
auntiestablishment@hotmail.com; Tbertruss@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Merry
Christmas</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>I don't think Jesus Christ would have been
asked to address the GOP convention, and I think his biggest detractors, if he
were here today, would be the religious right. Further, I think Jesus was
a liberal in the social sense and wouldn't recognize -- certainly not approve
of -- the politics of some of his most vocal followers. Above all, and
what I've been trying to say, is that he wouldn't do what he did because of
adherence to a philosophical point on the spectrum; he transcends these things
and has left us to wrestle with whether we want to be right, left, or on the
50-yard-line, OR if we want to be righteous.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>And my testpoint for that is: how
does it affect the "least of these" in society, and does it
glorify God in spirit and in truth?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Nope. The Bush tax cut just didn't .
. . cut it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>keely<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:green'> <a href="mailto:Tbertruss@aol.com">Tbertruss@aol.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:green'> <a href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">kjajmix1@msn.com</a> ; <a
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a> ; <a
href="mailto:auntiestablishment@hotmail.com">auntiestablishment@hotmailcom</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:green'> Monday, December 20, 2004 12:35 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=green face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:green;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=green face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:green'> Re: [Vision2020] Merry Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial PTSIZE=10 FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:green'><br>
Keely et. al.<br>
<br>
What stand would Christ take on the huge tax cuts of the Bush administration
giving billions back to the ultra-rich while working single mothers with
children can barely "survive" on minimum wage ($5.15 hr.) jobs?<br>
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And if your answer is that he would have wanted to give some of those billions
to the hard working deserving poor, rather than back to the ultra-rich, and/or
raise the minimum wage, I don't care what path Christ would have taken to shed
"labels," the Religious Right in the USA would plaster him with a big
sign declaring him a "tax and spend liberal." Well, that is,
unless they knew who he was, or who he was claiming to be, in which case they
might label him a fraud, or actually be shamed into facing their betrayal of
Christ's values.<br>
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If your answer is that Christ would have approved of the Bush administration
tax cuts, and all they imply, and/or that he would not advocate raising the
minimum wage, I am wrong.<br>
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Ted Moffett<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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