[quote]CappedAndPlanIt wrote:
[quote]JEATON wrote:
[quote]Menthol wrote:
Thought Walter Russell Mead had a nice article about what is happening in our inner cities with black Americans.
“Life Beyond Blue: Faith and the Inner City”
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/04/05/life-beyond-blue-faith-and-the-inner-city/
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Very good article.
To see such thought in action, look into the work of the Dream Center in Los Angeles.
Look into some of the statistics as to the drop in crime rates that have been achieved.
To those who say “Show me proof of God,” here is your proof.
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Please tell me that last part wasn’t serious.
Proof that religion can have a positive effect? Yes.
Proof that the claims of any one particular religion are true? No.[/quote]
When I read from you and your kind, I am often reminded of the quote from the character Ellsworth Toohey of The Fountainhead.
“Don’t set out to raze all shrines, you’ll frighten men. enshrine mediocrity-and the shrines are razed.”
Are you afraid to be powerful?
Or are you afraid that others can but you shall never be?
Why can you not tolerate great things being done by man in the name of God.
It is almost as though you would rather not see them done at all.
Even if I did not believe in God I would celebrate the accomplishments through love that Matthew Barnette and the Dream Center bring about every single day.
Whatever the source of your hate, know that it is not harming what you are focusing on. It is, however, going to eat you alive if you do not find a way to get rid of it.