Subject: BHA: An Anti-Terrorist Manifesto
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:47:31 -0500


Hi Carrol,

Although my view of Christianity probably differs from both yours and Tim's, many of our sentiments are seem quite similar.

Dick


-----Original Message-----
From: Carrol Cox [mailto:cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu] 
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:35 AM
To: bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
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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