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<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><font style="" face="Arial"><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Religious communities provided much of the steam behind the anti-Vietnam-war</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">movement, the civil rights movement, and support of the Farmworkers' union.</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Common causes engendered cooperative projects among various doctrines.</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">The Berrigan Brothers and the Maryknoll nuns, William Sloane Coffin, and Dr. </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Martin Luther King were influential activists.</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">That was the day, when clergymen were known for pacifism instead of pederasty.</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">B</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br></font></font></font></font><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:30:13 -0800<br>From: the_alliance47@yahoo.com<br>To: sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: The JESUS Machine<br><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">In the defence of Christians, Christianity is not a homogeneous group. There are many Christians who were against the War in Iraq (e.g. Pope John Paul II), defended the rights of those oppressed by American imperialism (e.g. Archbishop Oscar Romero), worked with the poor (e.g. Dorothy Day), and the list goes on. Christianity is about promoting all aspects of life, not just the issues that the Christian Right prioritise.<br><br>In fact, the Catholic Church has been a big critic of capitalism and totalitarianism, first set forth in Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum. There's a fairly good article on Wikipedia that gives an introduction to Catholic Social Teaching.<br><br>-Edward<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br><br /><hr />Windows Live™ Hotmail®:…more than just e-mail. <a href='http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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