Daily Kos: Educating the GOP (A Photo History of Community Organizers)
by Danny Fisher
As I mentioned in a post last week, I was both saddened and angered by the disparaging comments made about community organizers at the Republican National Convention, but especially those from Fmr. New York City Mayor Rudy Guilani and Vice Presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). Daily Kos has prepared a terrific photo history of community organizing entitled “Educating the GOP”. Take a look.
The religious right's high dudgeon extends to this "unfair" comparison of Obama with Christ and Palin (raped women should pay for their own rape kits) with Pontius Pilate.
Called in a local religious right talk show yesterday & asked how come they're not in high dudgeon about Sarah Palin's pathological lying?
Anyway, recent events have re-sparked my interest in Suzuki Shosan, who, observing the lies and slander and disorder fomented by the Jesuits in Japan, wrote himself a polemic against Christianity.
Of course there's been lots of intervening history, and lots of violence to boot, but there are historians that credit the Tokugawa shogunate's suppression of Christianity with the rise of religious tolerance and pluralism in Japan. The comparison between Japan and the Philippines in this point is telling, and is yet another reason why many Japanese look back on the Edo era, not the 60′s as Japan’s golden age. By kicking out the “missionaries” Japan avoided the bloody histories of many countries.
And a less violent, but full-throated opposition to today’s religious right can’t hurt, IMO.