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Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?God's Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition - that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life (beyond single issue voting), and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays and lesbians). These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not.
Read quotes from Thomas Merton here.
Don't think of an elephant - This book, better than any I've found, explains why 50% of the nation supports an agenda that is most often contrary to their best interests and the interests of the world at large. It explains how the conservatives have "framed" issues so successfully that even when confronted with facts to the contrary, their carefully framed issues can not be argued against without strengthening their misguided position. A must read if we truly want to win the battle for peace, justice, human rights, education...
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Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
We The People: A Call To Take Back America
What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return To Democracy.