Saturday, November 10, 2018

You Can't What?

The Reverend Al Carlisle of the Grace Of God Church in Port Richey, Florida has a message for us:



I guess what he was trying to say was you can't be a Christian, and be a Liberal or a Progressive.  The arrogance of trying to influence the vote, as a man of the cloth, and making sweeping, generalized judgements about a large swath of the population (and this from a man who especially ought to know better) is why Rev. Carlisle is the subject of our latest Call-Out.

Rev. Carlisle, I and my panel of friends beg to differ with you.  Allow me to introduce the panel:

  1.    Martin Luther King, Jr.
  2.    Jimmy Carter
  3.    Jesse Jackson
  4.    Al Sharpton
  5.    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  6.    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  7.    Corrie ten Boom
  8.    Thomas Merton
  9.    Reinhold Neibuhr (the author of the Serenity Prayer)
  10.    Frederick Douglass
  11.    Fred Rogers
  12.    Susan B. Anthony
  13.    Tommy Douglas (Baptist Minister, a Premier of Saskatchewan, and the developer of the Canadian model of Universal Health Care).  
  14.    Sojourner Truth
  15.    Dorothy Day
This is just my short list.  If I really wanted to get serious, believe me, my list would be a lot longer.  See you on the other side, Reverend!

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