Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:34:58 -0600
Subject: Re: BHA: RE: An Anti-Terrorist Manifesto




Tim Murphy wrote:
> 
> Hi Dick,
> 
> Yeah kind of...
> 
> The leftwing ones are OK to chat with but I would not like to go on holiday
> with one...

I pretty much share Tim's view of xtianity as a whole (and I _would_
have been disturbed if either of my daughters had married one) -- but
left Christians are not only good for chatting, they have been (and
still are) a vital part of the anti-imperialist movement in the u.s. as
a whole and in Bloomington-Normal Illinois in particular. The late
Father Kelly who directed the Newman Center at Illinois State University
for some 20 years (before the fucking bishop in Peoria exiled him to the
wilds of western Illinois) made that a center  of progressive and
anti-imperialist activity.

And while black churches are becoming less and less of a progressive
force, they were crucial to the movements of the '60s.

My first introduction to politics (just after I had finally finished my
dissertation) was in a local civil-rights group initiated by the late
Beulah Kennedy, definitely a xtian and definitely a very great human
being. (And it bothered her not in the least when I went on to become a
marxist.)

Carrol



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