Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Justice Sunday after Justice Sunday

I was struck by their message that they are the ONLY Christians on the planet. What are the rest of us? I was really insulted. Somehow, they totally ignore the message of the New Testament, and presume, yes PRESUME that they are right and the rest of us are wrong! As my father, an Episcopal priest, used to say..there will be a wall in heaven so they don't realize the rest of us are there.
I really think some letters to the editor need to go out, regarding this Justice Sunday thing and the fact (as many non fundamentalist religious leaders have said this past week) that we are insulted and angered that our religious beliefs are seen as less than theirs, that we are less Christian somehow. Not to mention the fact that the founding fathers did not want a state religion....some strange thing they wrote in our constitution about that, if I recall. Do these people not get the constitution? They want to promote one religion for all, damned to the rest of us, non Fundamentalist Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, etc. That's just not constitutional, period. There are many ways to the same path, lest we forget. As a remote descendant of the Iroquois Nation, of which the Algonquin were members, this speaks to my heart.

Big Thunder (Bedagi) Wabanaki Algonquin: "The Great Spirit is in all things, he is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us, that which we put into the ground she returns to us...."

Many ways to God, is one better than another because man says so? In the greater scheme of things, I think not.

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