Christ & History

[s~Z]

>>>Given the Church's bloody record as handmaiden to Empire around
the world,
it's hardly a surprise to find the Church's representatives so
often
reviled and even persecuted. But, the Church is no monolith. The
same
institution that supplies chaplains to minister to men as they go
into
battle to make the world safe for capitalists (as Pynchon notes in
GR) also
provides tools which can enable spiritual liberation at the
individual and
planetary level, if the teachings of Jesus (love your neighbor;
feed the
hungry, shelter the homeless, clothe the naked; etc.) are taken
seriously
and applied to daily life.<<<

So try this logic on the Bush Administration, the Republican
Party, and the American Government. It might slow your send button
a bit.