United States Ambassador to the United Nations John C. Danforth
gives what he considers to be the attitude of those in the U.N.
who declined to condemn human rights atrocities in Sudan.
Quoted here.
Originally "Danforth Faults U.N. Assembly On Sudan Ruling"
by Warren Hoge. New York Times, 24 NOV 2004

• What are real moral Values?
  by Dr. Robin Meyers
  

  "I'm tired of people thinking that because I'm a Christian, I must be a supporter of President Bush, or that because I favor civil rights and gay rights I must not be a person of faith. I'm tired of people saying that I can't support the troops and oppose the war.
  
  I heard that when I was your age, when the Vietnam War was raging. We knew that that war was wrong, and you know that this war is wrong, the only question is how many people are going to die before these make-believe Christians are removed from power?
  
  This country is bankrupt. The war is morally bankrupt. The claim of this administration to be Christian is bankrupt. And the only people who can turn things around are people like you, young people who are just beginning to wake up to what is happening to them. It's your country to take back. It's your faith to takeback. It's your future to take back. ...
  
  Arrogance is the opposite of faith. Greed is the opposite of charity. And believing that one has never made a mistake is the mark of a deluded man, not a man of faith."

  
  
  
  
• Far-Right Politicians Give Christians a Bad Name
  by Joel McNally
  Published on Sunday, October 9, 2005 by the Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin)
  

  "I would like to say something on behalf of Christians.
  
  Whenever someone asks me about religion, my usual response is that I am a fallen Unitarian, which is about as low as you can go. (Good lord! I should think so.)
  
  But anyone who has any familiarity with progressive politics is surrounded by Christians and deeply religious people all the time. ...
  
  But there's one thing about all those Christians I just mentioned. They bear absolutely no resemblance to the Christians I read about in the media who are the apparent interest group behind narrow-minded, mean-spirited legislation introduced by Republican legislators.
  
  The Christians I know do not promote hatred against other people. They don't oppose medical research that could save millions of lives. They don't want ignorance taught in our schools.
  
  They still believe Christianity has something to do with loving your neighbor, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and caring for the least among us.
  
  So I think the media and politicians should stop giving Christianity a bad name."

  
  
  
  
• "The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person.
  
  Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms."
  
  
  - The Catholic Worker Movement FAQ
  
  
  - "The aim of the Catholic Worker movement is to live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ. Our sources are the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as handed down in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, with our inspiration coming from the lives of the saints, 'men and women outstanding in holiness, living witnesses to Your unchanging love'. (Eucharistic Prayer)"
  
  Reprinted from The Catholic Worker newspaper, May 2002
  "... we advocate:
  
  -- Personalism, a philosophy which regards the freedom and dignity of each person as the basis, focus and goal of all metaphysics and morals. ...
  
  -- A decentralized society, in contrast to the present bigness of government, industry, education, health care and agriculture. We encourage efforts such as family farms, rural and urban land trusts, worker ownership and management of small factories, homesteading projects, food, housing and other cooperatives -- any effort in which money can once more become merely a medium of exchange, and human beings are no longer commodities.
  
  (Pages on this site on / Federalism, Globalization, Decentralization, Regionalism, Internationalism /
  and / Anarchism, Syndicalism, Labor / )
  
  -- A "green revolution," so that it is possible to rediscover the proper meaning of our labor and/or true bonds with the land; a distributist communitarianism, self-sufficient through farming, crafting and appropriate technology; a radically new society where people will rely on the fruits of their own toil and labor; associations of mutuality, and a sense of fairness to resolve conflicts."
  
  As a Green, I'd like to believe that this is straightforwardly a reference to the political Greens, but I'm not convinced that it is. I think that it is, though, "small-g green", or in harmony with the basic Green values.
  
  In general, the Catholic Worker programme strikes me as quite similar to Gandhi's.
  
  
  
  - Allied Movements
  
  "These links are to groups, organizations, and resources that, like the Catholic Worker Movement, are committed to working for peace and justice for all people."
  
  
  
  
• CrossLeft
  
  "We are a grassroots group of interdenominational progressive Christians who are helping to organize the movement of the Christian left and hoping to provide a place for dialogue between the left and the right."
  
  
  
  
• Atheists for Jesus
  26 MAR 2006
  

  "People on this blog have called the avoidance of war naive. People who think we should stop war are dangerous, naive, dumb: they are misguided, or even idiots. They want peace: well, they are certainly not to be taken seriously. They are dangerous. ...
  
  Does no-one realise how horrible war is? Perhaps this will help. People think in abstractions and cannot easily think of personal circumstances. ...
  
  I am not a Christian, but I am sounding more and more like one. Whatever happened to “turn the other cheek”? or to “He who is without sins cast the first stone”? Whatever happened to the hippie spirit behind Christianity? I think we need Atheists For Jesus."

  You can count me in!
  
  
  
  
• Greek Nuggets or Fool's Gold? - The Truth about the Agape-Phileo Myth
  by Dr Herb Evans
  For informational purposes - I don't personally agree with much that's on this site - ed.
  
  
  
  
• Bein Adam le-Chavero: Interpersonal Mitzvot
  
  
  
  
• TV Evangelist: Haiti's earthquake due to "pact with the Devil"
  14 JAN 2010
  With video clip
  
  
  
  
• White House calls Robertson's Haiti comment 'stupid'
  BBC News, 15 JAN 2010
  
  
  
  
  
• Don't give Haitians a penny, says rightwing US shock jock
  Guardian, 15 JAN 20210
  
  
  
  
  
• Rush Limbaugh Haiti comments defended by Free Republic
  
  
  
  
• Syria's Mufti: Islam commands us to protect Judaism
  Haaretz, 19 JAN 2010

  "Syria's foremost Muslim leader declared on Tuesday that Islam commands its followers to protect Judaism, according to Army Radio.
  
  'If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic,' Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria, was quoted as telling a delegation of American academics visiting Damascus.
  
  Hassoun, the leader of Syria's majority Sunni Muslim community, also told the delegates that Islam was a religion of peace, adding: 'If Mohammed had commanded us to kill people, I would have told him he was not a prophet.'
  
  Religious wars were the result of politics infiltrating systems of faith, he said, asking:
  
  'Was Moses of Middle Eastern or European descent? Was Jesus a Protestant or a Catholic? Was Mohammed Shi'ite or Sunni?' "

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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