Comments for A Unitarian Universalist Minister in Mississippi

Comment on Death Penalty: Execution by Red Tape by Filip Spagnoli

Filip Spagnoli — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:31:11 +0000

Thanks for the informative post. You may also like my posting on the subject: http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/tag/death-penalty/

Comment on William L. Moore’s letter to Governor to be finally delivered by Larry Carter Center

Larry Carter Center — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:26:22 +0000

Bill Moore appealed for an end to colonialism. Historically, slavery & racism would not have been such a giant problem without the practice of setting up colonies as agents of theocracies The notion of “chosen people” is the first sentence of the former South African Constitution, in force as late as 1994 where racism & apartheid was quite similar to 1963 Mississippi. As Bill Moore wrote, British colonialists retreated from their violent empires while French fought to control Vietnamese Catholics over Vietnamese Buddhists. Just as Cardinal Spellman dictated to President Kennedy & Johnson. Violence, whether by a redneck in Alabama or Napalm on a villager, is still violence rooted in bigotry “forgiven” by theocrats. Superiority, whether burning gel from aircraft or a gunshot to an innocent head, is not superiority at all, but bigotry would have the perpetrator think so. When the world’s rulers seek to help “brothers” not do violence to them, then Bill Moore will not have died in vain. Bill Moore marched for more than a principle of 1787 & 1791, he marched for justice face to face with one who could order an end to Jim Crow. World wealth disparity now is far worse than 45 years ago. Perhaps there are fewer battlefield victims but there are far more marketplace victims. Colonialism remains the problem & Bill Moore was marching with his eyes on the prize of peace.

Comment on Voices of a Liberal Faith–Unitarian Universalists by Peter Bowden

Peter Bowden — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:21:51 +0000

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Comment on Obama in 30 seconds by Eric Kirk

Eric Kirk — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:43:04 +0000

Here’s my favorite.

Comment on Is God Punishing? by serenityhome

serenityhome — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:31:41 +0000

Lizard Eater: My heart goes out to your family! I don’t buy the we are here to ‘learn lessons to prepare us for the next life or whatever we are being prepared for’ line either. Life is life and I choose to suck the marrow out of it in appreciation of it all. Enjoy your daughter! Enjoy being there with her in her laughing and crying moments with the fullness of love in your heart. Embrace it all and let the mystery be.

I know that I got emotional in this post and it is because I can only see pain in this kind of thinking for those who accept this concept of a punishing god as truth. And the same goes for your example of the “gentler” version. Faith, in my opinion, should be something that transcends our experiences and liberates us to embrace life in its fullness.

Comment on Is God Punishing? by Lizard Eater

Lizard Eater — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:05:32 +0000

Great post. The “gentler” version of this thought process is, “God is giving you this, so that you can learn and grow.” I have heard versions of this, not only in my Christian seminary, but in my UU home church.

My daughter was diagnosed with cancer at 7 months old. She’s almost three now, and we go in for surgery Thursday to see if the cancer has returned. Really, this is so that all the rest of us can learn lessons through the sacrifice of her? As you succinctly put it, what an SOB!

I always come back, as you mention, to the issue of consistency. Parents who are far better people than I am, and certainly have more devout faith, have lost their children to this disease.

And as a friend of mine said — a friend who lost her child to leukemia — “There is no lesson I learned that was important enough to justify his death.”

Comment on Euthanasia by zorba

zorba — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:30:49 +0000

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Comment on Euthanasia by Jason Elder

Jason Elder — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:34:41 +0000

Excellent Blog. I’ve been reading along and just wanted to say hi. I will be reading more of your posts in the future.

- Jason.

Comment on Cousin George W. Bush?? by Jim Van Dien

Jim Van Dien — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:19:06 +0000

Read your email more carefully and found how to leave a comment. Assume your relationship to Dubya is through the Hammond side of the family. Sometime you should publish your connection to the other presidents and first ladies, I, of course, would be interested in any through your mother’s side of the family. Is this a good example of eight degrees of separation, or what? Your Uncle Jim

Comment on Cousin George W. Bush?? by serenityhome

serenityhome — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:07:04 +0000

The song you refer to is entitled “The Free Church of Jones.” According to legend, Jones County seceded from Mississippi when Mississippi seceded from the Union and became the Free State of Jones. The existence of the Free State of Jones is fact, the reason behind it’s origin is the stuff of myth and legends. Anyway, someone, whose name escapes me, wrote the song that StevenR refers to and titled it “The Free Church of Jones”. It is a great song about the faith of these fine folk and its words proudly hang on our walls!