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23. Just a little history

Fri Mar 30, 2012, 12:14 PM

Mar 2012

While religion has often come out on both sides of these social issues, by far the predominant side has been a liberal support of justice in national life. Religious groups made the significant difference in:
abolition
civil rights
organized labor
justice for farm workers
women's suffrage
child labor
shutting down the war against Vietnam
marriage rights for Gays and Lesbians
justice for the disabled
preservation of the environment
Social Security legislation
on and on and on. Just go back and look at the historic record

Religious people added their voices to other bodies seeking justice. Of course they did not do this alone.
Conservative religious voices on the other side lost every one of these battles--

The day the Voting Rights Law was passed, Sen Russell of Georgia was heard to remark, "We wouldn't have had this thing had it not been for those damn Christians."

Are you really saying that people with a religious motive should not have been involved in these struggles? To have pulled these people out of the fights would have gutted every one of them. Is that what you really want today?

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The religious side of Occupy [View all] Thats my opinion Mar 2012 OP

Religion needs to stay out of politics. nt rrneck Mar 2012 #1

It's a social movement, not politics. Do you think religion should stay out of cbayer Mar 2012 #2

O.W.S. rrneck Mar 2012 #8

I find your definition of religion and religious groups very stifling, cbayer Mar 2012 #22

I don't consider it stifiling at all. rrneck Mar 2012 #24

With the tools of money and governement tama Mar 2012 #38

I do. deacon_sephiroth Mar 2012 #25

Well... ellisonz Mar 2012 #4

Aw ellison, c'mon dude... rrneck Mar 2012 #6

Or we could no wage sectional wars as part of an interfaith movement... ellisonz Mar 2012 #7

It won't work for us. rrneck Mar 2012 #9

Ye of little faith... ellisonz Mar 2012 #10

How many of the 99% are baseball fans? rrneck Mar 2012 #11

Sports is Powerful Stuff ellisonz Mar 2012 #12

And all of its power accrues to sports. rrneck Mar 2012 #13

Sports and religion are as old as politics n/t ellisonz Mar 2012 #14

Has there ever been rrneck Mar 2012 #15

Arguably... ellisonz Mar 2012 #16

I said rrneck Mar 2012 #17

Success is relative... ellisonz Mar 2012 #18

It's relative all right. rrneck Mar 2012 #20

And there is Rev. Jesse Jackson and his Operations Breadbaskey/Push/Rainbow cbayer Mar 2012 #28

No! That's bad because he's bringing religion into politics... ellisonz Mar 2012 #29

Who said anything about reason? rrneck Mar 2012 #34

For real rrneck... ellisonz Mar 2012 #35

I wonder how much money he made off that video? nt rrneck Mar 2012 #36

Just a little history Thats my opinion Mar 2012 #23

I like history. rrneck Mar 2012 #37

Thanks for the update. We all have to unite and stand up for the common good. - n/t Jim__ Mar 2012 #3

Great! As an atheist... Joseph8th Mar 2012 #5

Wonderful! God has arrived to save the day! cleanhippie Mar 2012 #19

I find this a useful occurrence. edhopper Mar 2012 #21

Agree. And trying to exclude any groups that share the goals just because cbayer Mar 2012 #27

Large groups like this need to keep their focus on the main issues. edhopper Mar 2012 #32

Trying to make OWS a religious movement... deacon_sephiroth Mar 2012 #26

Of course nobody is trying to make or pretend that Occupy is a religious movement Thats my opinion Mar 2012 #30

Yes, I don't see in your OP edhopper Mar 2012 #33

So what do people who object to this think of the religious communities cbayer Mar 2012 #31