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Skriven 2015-10-13 04:18:08 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 28614 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Religion declining
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Hello Ward,

 LL>> That is why black churches are the political centers of activity
 LL>> for black people.  This is different from white churches, which
 LL>> are used for other purposes aside from politics.

 WD> They're training people in carpentry to make large wooden crosses, also in
 WD> the making of full-body white hoodies.

We had a governor of Louisiana who tried to get prison inmates
make the gurneys that hold the inmates on death row who are to be
executed.  I say tried because he caused a full-scale riot to take
place.  The warden had to back off, telling the governor it was
not going to happen.  As if digging one's own grave was bad enough.
There are just some things a prisoner is not going to do ...

 LL>> I have always wondered what would have happend had the Rev.
 LL>> Martin Luther King, Jr. not been assassinated.  I do believe
 LL>> he would have become the first black President of the United
 LL>> States.  And much sooner than the man from Kenya.

 WD> For some people it is better to leave the stage and let the myth continue.

Is it better to live a nobody than to die a hero?  In terms
of religion, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be called
a martyr, or martyr of the faith.  Had he been Catholic, he
would have been declared a saint.

 WD> Dr Martin Luther King, in my opinon, eventually would've landed into court
 WD> for things that neither a black leader nor an aspiring US prez should get
 WD> himself involved into.

Many, if not most, of the saints in the Catholic Church led
considerably less than what one would call saintly lives.
Some were soldiers who had committed horrible deeds, against
both man and God.  So who is to say who is deserving of being
a saint, or not deserving?  Just because a pope says somebody
is a saint does not mean that person was ever a saintly person.

Rev. King was non-Catholic, but led a Christian life.  Even
though much of the life he led was sinful.  But loving women
is hardly the kind of sinful life that should merit anybody
eternal condemnation ...

 WD> He was way more powerful outside than he ever could have been inside the
 WD> White House. Look at the guy from Kenya ... "Yes We Can" and "Change" ..
he
 WD> did prove that a non-white could be elected to the highest office. That
was
 WD> the "Change" that he brought on January 20th 2009 ... then came January
 WD> 21st 2009 and that was about it.

What a Wonderful World it was when President Barack Obama
became Nobel Laureate Barack Obama ...

--Lee

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