tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post3147297672202134620..comments2023-11-10T09:15:40.084-08:00Comments on The Friends of Jake: on being usedDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post-77301721492378110892008-07-28T15:21:00.000-07:002008-07-28T15:21:00.000-07:00I found Anderson's comment last week that Sudanese...<I>I found Anderson's comment last week that Sudanese Bishop Bul's words were "loving" not only incomprehensible but extremely hurtful, as well. Loving?</I><BR/><BR/>What? WHO?<BR/><BR/>Surely, NOT Bonnie Anderson? Whom are you talking about, cany?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post-11687115571829241192008-07-28T10:33:00.000-07:002008-07-28T10:33:00.000-07:00This is so very sad, JCF. Not unexpected, however...This is so very sad, JCF. Not unexpected, however. Words harm and to an unbalanced mind, they apparently motivate, as well.<BR/><BR/>And when the voices in our own communion spew hatred for any group of people, it just adds to the edge of everyone IN that hatred.<BR/><BR/>It is a terrible, tragic but inevitable consequence. I don't know what it will take for our Communion to understand the relationship between hateful words and violence.<BR/><BR/>I found Anderson's comment last week that Sudanese Bishop Bul's words were "loving" not only incomprehensible but extremely hurtful, as well. Loving?<BR/><BR/>This whole mess is just heartbreaking for me to watch. It is a dynamic that is so terribly human, and so tragically removed from God.<BR/><BR/>I have found myself so depressed over the last 72 hours that I have been watching comedies trying to snap out of it.<BR/><BR/>So far, it isn't working.<BR/><BR/>canyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post-63334973210929789232008-07-28T10:12:00.000-07:002008-07-28T10:12:00.000-07:00Off-topic: Ever since I heard WHAT church was shot...Off-topic: <BR/><BR/>Ever since I heard WHAT church was shot up yesterday (and secondarily, WHERE), I was sort of waiting for this shoe to drop... and it did:<BR/><BR/><I><B>Letter Proves Gay-Inclusion Motivated Church Shooting</B> <BR/><BR/>Jim D. Adkisson wanted to fight a gay-inclusive church’s “liberal movement” when he shot-up Sunday services this weekend, said police. Fifty-eight year old Adkisson allegedly killed two and injured seven at about 10:18 on yesterday morning and a letter found in his car later specified his murderous “reasoning:”<BR/><BR/>"The shotgun-wielding suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church was motivated by a hatred of “the liberal movement,” and he planned to shoot until police shot him, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said this morning.<BR/><BR/>[Adkisson] of Powell wrote a four-page letter in which he stated his <B>“hatred of the liberal movement,” Owen said. “Liberals in general, as well as gays.”</B><BR/><BR/>The four-page letter indicates that Adkisson had been planning the attack for about a week.</I> <BR/><BR/>Report <A HREF="http://www.queerty.com/letter-proves-gay-inclusion-motivated-church-shooting-20080728/" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<BR/><BR/>Even though Adkisson is clearly crazy (you're unemployed, and you blame "liberals"? That's like having cancer, and blaming oncologists! :-0), still, it's a <I>predictable kind of crazy</I> that our homophobic society produces (i.e., serving the "Principalities & Powers").<BR/><BR/>While I may Christological differences w/ the UUs, I have little doubt they were <B>killed for practicing The Gospel</B> (kinda wish <I>Grace</I> were here to argue w/ me ;-/)<BR/><BR/>Lord, grant rest eternal to your saints!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8238382886103256219.post-64087556000037528272008-07-28T09:23:00.000-07:002008-07-28T09:23:00.000-07:00And this from the Windsor Continuation Group - a g...And this from the Windsor Continuation Group - a group of anti-gay appointees of the ABC <A HREF="http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/lambeth_conference/live_breaking_a_pastoral_forum.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287169546184325690noreply@blogger.com