Organized Religion (OR) has served Mammon & Mars well, while diverting its customers from virtuous thoughts & actions. ("Episcopal" DOES mean "overlook"!) What killed OR for me--by age 10--was the Required Weekly Perjury, aka reciting the "Apostles' Creed." A few Believers, though, actually try to enact the teachings of their religion's founders and thereby do much good in the world. We'll hear 2 speak: veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern and M.L. King, Jr (from Riverside Church antiwar speech).
Thanks to Seattles Mike McCormick for the talk by Ray McGovern--which I yanked from a half-hour interview from Mikes radio program, Mind Over Matters (November 2009).
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McGOVERN lucidly shows the oily roots of the Bush-Obama invasion of Afghanistan. Parts of his talk are funny--for instance when he recreates a discussion he had with a burgher of a rich Milwaukee suburb, on whether or not saving a dollar a gallon on gas is worth a half-dozen dead American soldiers a week. And on how many Commandments the State Department and Pentagon have broken by the time the gasoline reaches the pump.
The passage fron M.L. KING's long speech includes a fine discussion of how a Christian should respond to Communist revolutionaries ... and a stirring denunciation of the Administration's policies of defunding programs that helped the poor ("both black and white") at home in order to pay for more bullets, napalm, bombs, and bombers to kill (primarily) innocent peasants abroad. Does any of this sound at all familiar? One sign of the quality and power of King's speech: it was strongly denounced by almost all of the corporate-controlled American media!
THIS WEEK'S SONG: "Hymn for a Sunday Evening," From Bye Bye Birdie (original cast recording), 1960.
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