church folks against war

[joanna bujes]

At 02:22 PM 10/05/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>As I've noted here before, the Christians I dealt with during the Central
>American wars were the most committed and humane activists I'd ever met.
>They truly believed in and fully lived their faith, were tolerant and kind.
>And they saved lives, unlike the hideous sectarians, mostly white and
>middle-class, who acted like little nazis and used the carnage in El
>Salvador and Nicaragua as a backdrop for their empty sloganeering and paper
>waving. Vile things who only served themselves. And they're still around, I
>see.

I'm not sure what you're talking about Dennis. I have a couple of friends 
who went to Nicaragua, neither religious, both leftists; they risked their 
lives in order to help  (one with computers, the other with forging links 
with unions).

I hated the empty sloganeering and paper waving as much as anyone, but just 
as there are differences among church groups (some got involved, some not), 
so there are and were differences among leftists.

Joanna