Disagreeing with a sermon is different from recognizing that your 'spiritual mentor' is a raving racist loony.
>>I dunno, Tamar. Obama was an active member of that church and had his kids baptised there. It's not like he was a passive member of the audience when, repeatedly, Wright went off half-cocked.
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>But my exact point was that I was an active member of a synagogue (even co-president of an auxiliary) where I often disagreed vehemently with the rabbi's sermons. Belonging to a church or synagogue is about much, much more than what's said in the pulpit.
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
