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• Reader Comments (6)

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  Wallis is an interesting person, and hardly as much an oddity as the media would have us believe. There are many evangelical Christians who do not belong to the Christian Right, as it is mislabled.

  It is also worth noting that when Republicans are questioned in exit polls, their religious affiliation is always covered. Not so with Democratic voters, so it is impossible to say how many evangelicals may be voting for Obama or even Clinton.

  There is a growing movement among evangelicals (I am not one myself) to actually emulate their supposed leader (care about the poor, the enviroment, peace, justice, etc.) instead of the slobbering christianists and Christian Zionists who the media foists upon us all as the true leaders of the church. This movement could benefit us all, regardless of our own faiths or lack thereof, and we should do what we can to encourage its growth.

  We need everybody that is willing to help turn things around, and to marginalize, and eventually silence, those who would destroy the world in the name of their hideous god.

  Posted by opeluboy on Mar 10, 2008 at 6:01 PM

  As a Christian woman, 76 years old, I have a big problem with the Christian right (wrong?).

  I do not see the life of Jesus or his teachings, in a large number of churches who call for judgment and punishment of many of their own members.  Where is our authorization to demand that others have to walk in lockstep with the hierarchy of our own particular church/denomination?

  They, who have supported for years, discrimination against people of color, red and yellow, black and white and women, and do not seem to understand his very clear admonishments of how we treat people “other than us”.

  Posted by genef96 on Apr 9, 2008 at 10:02 AM

  A witty child in the dreamland.

  There’s a witty
  child where
  a beautiful dreamland
  presents the profile
  of a delicate hedge,
  over a feeling, in
  the care of a
  blackbird; and there’s
  also that sunset,
  the timid contour
  of a glittering flame.

  Francesco Sinibaldi

  Posted by Sinibaldi on Apr 12, 2008 at 2:03 PM

  I give you the sound…

  In the darkness,
  and when a soft
  wind arrives near
  a magic lantern,
  you call me
  like a glittering eye
  in the skill of
  a wisdom, you touch
  a desire, and then,
  in my heart, a delicate
  voice discovers a
  fate: you claim
  the atmosphere, I
  give the sound.....

  Francesco Sinibaldi Italy/Usa

  Posted by Sinibaldi on Apr 25, 2008 at 10:44 AM

  The red carpet of my shoulder.

  Early in the
  morning, when
  gloomy canticles
  rejoice in the
  sound of the quietness,
  I hear a scrupulous
  voice on the sun
  of a summer, while
  a sadness delights
  and discovers a care.
  
  Francesco Sinibaldi

  Posted by Sinibaldi on Apr 26, 2008 at 2:00 PM

  I’m lazy.

  When the night
  comes back
  telling a story, I’m
  lazy: beautiful
  sounds of a primitive
  faith appear in
  my mind, and even
  that arrow describes,
  in a moment, the
  slippery darkness
  of a tender caprice,
  there, where a
  light fades away......

  Francesco Sinibaldi

  Posted by Sinibaldi on May 10, 2008 at 2:13 PM

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