[lbo-talk] Re: the gibson jesus

[Carl Remick]

>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
>I've stood on too many picket lines with United
>Methodists, done civil disobedience support with too
>many Catholics nuns and priests, organized with too
>many Southern Baptists, done movement work with too
>many Unitarians, to be able to agree with this cheap
>anticlericism.
>
>
>An old movement friend from Ann Arbor who was neither
>once said to be that when the chips are down there are
>two groups you can always count on -- the Quakers and
>the commies. He thought it was because they both had
>something to believe in that kept them going when
>everyone else had quit.
>
>jks

Spare me the Frank Capra-style sentimentality about numinous lefties you've 
known, jks, and wake up and smell the Middle Ages!  Who cares what effete 
Unitarians or Quakers think about anything -- they're yesterday's Good News, 
so to speak.  The ascendant New Age Christianity is quite a different beast 
-- deeply antirational, nationalistic, pro-military, all manner of evil 
things.

I think the US, in particular, will never have decent social services -- 
and, more distantly, that there will never be any prospect of socialism here 
-- so long as so many continue to look skywards for guidance and solutions 
to social injustices and other real problems of life.

Carl

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