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Prominent Religious Leaders Join to Protest Invasion of Iraq, Vow to Blockade SF Federal Building Friday Morning 3/28 and Risk Arrest
Interfaith Witness for Peace in the Middle East
NEWS
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bob Lyons, Buddhist Peace Fellowship (510) 655-6169 ext 311
Allan Solomonow, American Friends Service Committee (415) 565-0201 x 26
Buddhist monks, Jewish rabbis, Roman Catholic priests, and Protestant ministers will convene at the San Francisco Federal Building Friday for an interfaith service to mourn the dead and protest the US invasion of Iraq. Some will engage in civil disobedience and risk arrest to express their sorrow and deep disagreement with the war policy of the Bush administration.
WHERE: San Francisco Federal Building, Golden Gate and Larkin
WHEN: Friday morning, March 28, 9:00 AM: Interfaith service including Memorial and Well-being services for victims and participants on both sides of the conflict, plus Reading of an Open Letter to President Bush, administration officials, and California Congressional delegation (attached). 10:00 AM: Civil Disobedience by spiritual leaders and others.
WHO: Buddhists Jack Kornfield, Paul Haller, Sylvia Boorstein and Alan Senauke; Rabbis Pam Frydman Baugh, Michael Lerner and David Cooper; Roman Catholics Louis Vitale and Sister Bernie Galvin; and Protestant ministers Roger Ridgeway and Schuyler Rhoades will speak (some will risk arrest). Sponsored by the Interfaith Witness for Peace in the Middle East, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, American Friends Service Committee, Tikkun Community, Religious Witness with Homeless People, and the Franciscan Affinity Group.
“People of faith cannot sit idly by, while religious language is used to justify an invasion that is opposed by the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and the religions of the world,” said Sister Bernie Galvin.
“Two thousand five hundred years ago the Buddha said: ‘To harm live beings who, like us, seek contentment, is to bring harm to ourselves.’ This is true today just as it was then,” said Sylvia Boorstein.
“God blesses all countries and all people, not just America and Americans,” said Allan Solomonow.
“War is hell, and hell is as far away as you can get from the world of the spirit. To bring our troops home now would be redemption for all of us,” said Alan Senauke
“This war violates international law and all sense of human decency, and is unnecessary. We wish safety to American soldiers and Iraqis alike. May all beings be free from suffering,” said Reverend Taigen Leighton.
March 28, 2003
Dear President Bush, Secretaries Powell & Rumsfeld, Senators Feinstein & Boxer, and members of California’s Congressional delegation:
Today we stand before San Francisco’s Phillip Burton Federal Building in sorrow and in hope. Our sorrow is for the dead, the wounded, the missing on all sides in this U.S.-led war with Iraq. Our hope and prayer is for peace and security. Peace and true security are built on actions of generosity, patience, mutual respect, and non-harming. The deepest teachings of all our religions carry these truths.
Though we may have different practices and beliefs, we share the vision that all beings comprise one spirit, one humanity, that all seek peace and happiness. Leaders from many faith traditions, including your own, have spoken clearly and publicly that this war is wrong. We understand that the earth itself is wounded, and that war will leave its mark on countless lives for years to come. Violence can never lead to peace. We pray that even in the midst of war you may realize these truths and turn back from further death and destruction.
As clergy and people of faith from Northern California, we are aware of the great responsibilities you bear for the wellbeing of Americans, and your concern for the people of Iraq. In our own churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples we are responsible for the spiritual wellbeing of our congregations and communities. Together, we can create a world free from fear, poverty, disease, and war. This will never arise from self-centeredness, greed, national pride, empire, and intolerance. We believe that the consequences of this pre-emptive war in Iraq will spin the whole world into a downward spiral of fear and untruth.
Barely a week into this war, we can see the terrible results. It is not a video game. It is not a walk in the park. Real people—men, women, and children—are being killed. Boastful predictions of easy victory and welcoming Iraqis turn out to be a pipedream. What did you really expect? So now the battle will be in earnest. Death and destruction will bury the sweet dream of peace and freedom.
Yet, it is never too late to awaken to the common spirit flowing in the blood of each of us. We know that this spirit is strong and unstoppable. It grows like grass coming up through cracks in the sidewalk. When we listen to this spirit, we oppose war and encourage diplomacy. We wholeheartedly welcome the return of our troops now and offer our enemies a generous peace and reconciliation. Such a course may seem naïve, but we know this to be ancient and universal wisdom.
The late Oscar Romero, activist Archbishop of El Salvador—assassinated in March 1980 as he celebrated mass in San Salvador—offered these words of truth. "Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."
Some of us here today are committed to an action of civil disobedience, blocking entrance to the Federal Building to express our opposition to the U.S. government’s policy of war. We do not undertake civil disobedience lightly. Because we feel that a pre-emptive war unsupported by a great majority of nations is in violation of the spirit of international law, we knowingly violate the law of our own country. It may be a symbolic gesture, but this is how we choose to speak with our conscience and bodies. We do so with respect, in peace, and with reverence for life.
In peace,
Pam Frydman Baugh, Congregation Or Shalom
Sylvia Boorstein, Insight Meditation Society
David Cooper, Kehilla Community Synagogue
Sister Bernie Galvin, Religious Witness with Homeless People
Paul Haller, San Francisco Zen Center
Jack Kornfield, Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Michael Lerner, Tikkun Community
Allan Solomonow, American Friends Service Committee
Schuyler Rhoades, Temple United Methodist Church
Roger Ridgeway, St. John’s United Church of Christ
Alan Senauke, Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Father Louis Vitale, St. Boniface Church
NEWS
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bob Lyons, Buddhist Peace Fellowship (510) 655-6169 ext 311
Allan Solomonow, American Friends Service Committee (415) 565-0201 x 26
Buddhist monks, Jewish rabbis, Roman Catholic priests, and Protestant ministers will convene at the San Francisco Federal Building Friday for an interfaith service to mourn the dead and protest the US invasion of Iraq. Some will engage in civil disobedience and risk arrest to express their sorrow and deep disagreement with the war policy of the Bush administration.
WHERE: San Francisco Federal Building, Golden Gate and Larkin
WHEN: Friday morning, March 28, 9:00 AM: Interfaith service including Memorial and Well-being services for victims and participants on both sides of the conflict, plus Reading of an Open Letter to President Bush, administration officials, and California Congressional delegation (attached). 10:00 AM: Civil Disobedience by spiritual leaders and others.
WHO: Buddhists Jack Kornfield, Paul Haller, Sylvia Boorstein and Alan Senauke; Rabbis Pam Frydman Baugh, Michael Lerner and David Cooper; Roman Catholics Louis Vitale and Sister Bernie Galvin; and Protestant ministers Roger Ridgeway and Schuyler Rhoades will speak (some will risk arrest). Sponsored by the Interfaith Witness for Peace in the Middle East, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, American Friends Service Committee, Tikkun Community, Religious Witness with Homeless People, and the Franciscan Affinity Group.
“People of faith cannot sit idly by, while religious language is used to justify an invasion that is opposed by the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and the religions of the world,” said Sister Bernie Galvin.
“Two thousand five hundred years ago the Buddha said: ‘To harm live beings who, like us, seek contentment, is to bring harm to ourselves.’ This is true today just as it was then,” said Sylvia Boorstein.
“God blesses all countries and all people, not just America and Americans,” said Allan Solomonow.
“War is hell, and hell is as far away as you can get from the world of the spirit. To bring our troops home now would be redemption for all of us,” said Alan Senauke
“This war violates international law and all sense of human decency, and is unnecessary. We wish safety to American soldiers and Iraqis alike. May all beings be free from suffering,” said Reverend Taigen Leighton.
March 28, 2003
Dear President Bush, Secretaries Powell & Rumsfeld, Senators Feinstein & Boxer, and members of California’s Congressional delegation:
Today we stand before San Francisco’s Phillip Burton Federal Building in sorrow and in hope. Our sorrow is for the dead, the wounded, the missing on all sides in this U.S.-led war with Iraq. Our hope and prayer is for peace and security. Peace and true security are built on actions of generosity, patience, mutual respect, and non-harming. The deepest teachings of all our religions carry these truths.
Though we may have different practices and beliefs, we share the vision that all beings comprise one spirit, one humanity, that all seek peace and happiness. Leaders from many faith traditions, including your own, have spoken clearly and publicly that this war is wrong. We understand that the earth itself is wounded, and that war will leave its mark on countless lives for years to come. Violence can never lead to peace. We pray that even in the midst of war you may realize these truths and turn back from further death and destruction.
As clergy and people of faith from Northern California, we are aware of the great responsibilities you bear for the wellbeing of Americans, and your concern for the people of Iraq. In our own churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples we are responsible for the spiritual wellbeing of our congregations and communities. Together, we can create a world free from fear, poverty, disease, and war. This will never arise from self-centeredness, greed, national pride, empire, and intolerance. We believe that the consequences of this pre-emptive war in Iraq will spin the whole world into a downward spiral of fear and untruth.
Barely a week into this war, we can see the terrible results. It is not a video game. It is not a walk in the park. Real people—men, women, and children—are being killed. Boastful predictions of easy victory and welcoming Iraqis turn out to be a pipedream. What did you really expect? So now the battle will be in earnest. Death and destruction will bury the sweet dream of peace and freedom.
Yet, it is never too late to awaken to the common spirit flowing in the blood of each of us. We know that this spirit is strong and unstoppable. It grows like grass coming up through cracks in the sidewalk. When we listen to this spirit, we oppose war and encourage diplomacy. We wholeheartedly welcome the return of our troops now and offer our enemies a generous peace and reconciliation. Such a course may seem naïve, but we know this to be ancient and universal wisdom.
The late Oscar Romero, activist Archbishop of El Salvador—assassinated in March 1980 as he celebrated mass in San Salvador—offered these words of truth. "Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."
Some of us here today are committed to an action of civil disobedience, blocking entrance to the Federal Building to express our opposition to the U.S. government’s policy of war. We do not undertake civil disobedience lightly. Because we feel that a pre-emptive war unsupported by a great majority of nations is in violation of the spirit of international law, we knowingly violate the law of our own country. It may be a symbolic gesture, but this is how we choose to speak with our conscience and bodies. We do so with respect, in peace, and with reverence for life.
In peace,
Pam Frydman Baugh, Congregation Or Shalom
Sylvia Boorstein, Insight Meditation Society
David Cooper, Kehilla Community Synagogue
Sister Bernie Galvin, Religious Witness with Homeless People
Paul Haller, San Francisco Zen Center
Jack Kornfield, Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Michael Lerner, Tikkun Community
Allan Solomonow, American Friends Service Committee
Schuyler Rhoades, Temple United Methodist Church
Roger Ridgeway, St. John’s United Church of Christ
Alan Senauke, Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Father Louis Vitale, St. Boniface Church
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The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.
Sunday morning came -- next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with martial dreams -- visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender! Then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag, or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths. The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation
*God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest! Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!*
Then came the "long" prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was, that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in the day of battle and the hour of peril, bear them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory --
An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the preacher's side and stood there waiting. With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued with his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal, "Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!"
The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside -- which the startled minister did -- and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes, in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said:
"I come from the Throne -- bearing a message from Almighty God!" The words smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it he gave no attention. "He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import -- that is to say, its full import. For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of -- except he pause and think.
"God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two -- one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him Who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this -- keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor's crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.
"You have heard your servant's prayer -- the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it -- that part which the pastor -- and also you in your hearts -- fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is sufficient. the *whole* of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory--*must* follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(*After a pause.*) "Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!"
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Twain apparently dictated it around 1904-05; it was rejected by his publisher, and was found after his death among his unpublished manuscripts. It was first published in 1923 in Albert Bigelow Paine's anthology, Europe and Elsewhere.
The story is in response to a particular war, namely the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902, which Twain opposed. See Jim Zwick's page "Mark Twain on the Philippines" for more of Twain's writings on the subject
by Mark Twain
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.
Sunday morning came -- next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with martial dreams -- visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender! Then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag, or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths. The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation
*God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest! Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!*
Then came the "long" prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was, that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in the day of battle and the hour of peril, bear them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory --
An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the preacher's side and stood there waiting. With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued with his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal, "Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!"
The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside -- which the startled minister did -- and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes, in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said:
"I come from the Throne -- bearing a message from Almighty God!" The words smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it he gave no attention. "He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import -- that is to say, its full import. For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of -- except he pause and think.
"God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two -- one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him Who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this -- keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor's crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.
"You have heard your servant's prayer -- the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it -- that part which the pastor -- and also you in your hearts -- fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is sufficient. the *whole* of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory--*must* follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(*After a pause.*) "Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!"
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Twain apparently dictated it around 1904-05; it was rejected by his publisher, and was found after his death among his unpublished manuscripts. It was first published in 1923 in Albert Bigelow Paine's anthology, Europe and Elsewhere.
The story is in response to a particular war, namely the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902, which Twain opposed. See Jim Zwick's page "Mark Twain on the Philippines" for more of Twain's writings on the subject
In response to twain, yes, many religious instiutions have been hand in glove with the governmental war machines of the past and some still to this day. I think by the quote that you put out that you mean that ,"well, first they say that war is good and now that war is evil, what stock do we put in these religious types?" Not being very religious meself, I can most certainly say that people of the cloth and belief have done so much to change and help people all over the world. I am not talking about missionaries and such, but about protecting unions and political dissidants that speak their minds against fascist regimes (el salvadore being a very good example) They risk multiple arrests and hardship, not for their personal glory, but to sincerely help others. What say about that?
oh, and twain was vehemently pro war for some time until he traveled and woke up from his nationalistic fervor.
just thought you should know that.
institutions, such as religions, as well as people can go through transformations.
just thought you should know that.
institutions, such as religions, as well as people can go through transformations.
Oh, and twain was very pro war at one pointquite vehemently so. until he traveled extensively and woke up from his nationalistic viewpoint.
Institutions, such as religions, as well as people can go through transformations.
Institutions, such as religions, as well as people can go through transformations.
Martin Luther King Pop Quiz
How much do you really know?
Here's a little MLK quiz to coincide with the upcoming MLK holiday.
Enjoy!
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Many Americans don't know enough about MLK. After taking this quiz, you will see how little the schools, news media and political establishment have told you about the only American with his own
holiday.
1) Name the judge who has sealed King's FBI surveillance file until
the year 2027.
Answer: The Honorable John Lewis Smith, Jr.
2) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last night on
earth in an adulterous liaison?
Answer: Reverend Ralph Abernathy. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
3) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last morning
on earth physically beating a woman?
Answer: Reverend Ralph Abernathy. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
4) Who was the U.S. Attorney General who ordered the FBI to wiretap
King?
Answer: Robert F. Kennedy
5) Who was the Assistant Director of the FBI who wrote a letter to
Sen. John P. East (R-NC) describing King's conduct of "orgiastic and
adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be
bestial in his sexual abuse of women."
Answer: Charles D. Brennan
6) Who called King a "hypocrite preacher."
Answer: President Lyndon B. Johnson
7) What U.S. newspaper reported that King had plagiarized his
doctoral thesis at Boston University.
Answer: The Wall Street Journal
8) Whom did King plagiarize in more than 50 complete sentences in his
doctoral thesis?
Answer: Dr. Jack Boozer
9) Who was the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
who purposely suppressed knowledge of King's plagiarism of his
doctoral thesis?
Answer: Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard Cheney
10) What was Martin Luther King's real name?
Answer: Michael King, Jr. In 1935 his father, Michael King, declared
to his congregation that he wound henceforth be known as Martin
Luther King and his son would be known as Martin Luther King, Jr.
11) In his first public sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1947
who did King plagiarize?
Answer: Harry Emerson Fosdick
12) Name the man who served as King's personal secretary from 1955 to
1960, had joined the Young Communists League at New York City College
in 1936, went to prison for draft evasion in 1944, and in 1953 was
sentenced to 60 days in jail in California "lewd vagrancy and
homosexual perversion."
Answer: Bayard Rustin
13) According to whom had King "privately described himself as a
Marxist."
Answer: His biographer, David J. Garrow
14) Who edited King's book Stride Toward Freedom?
Answer: Communist Stanley Levison
15) Who made the following speech?
That's exactly what we mean-- from every mountain side, let freedom
ring.Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont
and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from
the Ozarks in Arkansas, from Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia --let it ring not only for the minorities
of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth--from
every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!
Answer: Archibald Carey, 1952
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If you got no questions correct it means that you are exactly the kind of ignorant citizen your government desires.
1-3 questions correct means you could be dangerous.
4-6 questions correct means you must read to much.
7-10 questions correct means you must value historical correctness instead of political correctness. Congratulations!!
11 or more questions correct means you've been reading this website and learned the truth.
Now it's up to you to tell others the truth.
How much do you really know?
Here's a little MLK quiz to coincide with the upcoming MLK holiday.
Enjoy!
------------------------------
Many Americans don't know enough about MLK. After taking this quiz, you will see how little the schools, news media and political establishment have told you about the only American with his own
holiday.
1) Name the judge who has sealed King's FBI surveillance file until
the year 2027.
Answer: The Honorable John Lewis Smith, Jr.
2) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last night on
earth in an adulterous liaison?
Answer: Reverend Ralph Abernathy. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
3) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last morning
on earth physically beating a woman?
Answer: Reverend Ralph Abernathy. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
4) Who was the U.S. Attorney General who ordered the FBI to wiretap
King?
Answer: Robert F. Kennedy
5) Who was the Assistant Director of the FBI who wrote a letter to
Sen. John P. East (R-NC) describing King's conduct of "orgiastic and
adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be
bestial in his sexual abuse of women."
Answer: Charles D. Brennan
6) Who called King a "hypocrite preacher."
Answer: President Lyndon B. Johnson
7) What U.S. newspaper reported that King had plagiarized his
doctoral thesis at Boston University.
Answer: The Wall Street Journal
8) Whom did King plagiarize in more than 50 complete sentences in his
doctoral thesis?
Answer: Dr. Jack Boozer
9) Who was the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
who purposely suppressed knowledge of King's plagiarism of his
doctoral thesis?
Answer: Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard Cheney
10) What was Martin Luther King's real name?
Answer: Michael King, Jr. In 1935 his father, Michael King, declared
to his congregation that he wound henceforth be known as Martin
Luther King and his son would be known as Martin Luther King, Jr.
11) In his first public sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1947
who did King plagiarize?
Answer: Harry Emerson Fosdick
12) Name the man who served as King's personal secretary from 1955 to
1960, had joined the Young Communists League at New York City College
in 1936, went to prison for draft evasion in 1944, and in 1953 was
sentenced to 60 days in jail in California "lewd vagrancy and
homosexual perversion."
Answer: Bayard Rustin
13) According to whom had King "privately described himself as a
Marxist."
Answer: His biographer, David J. Garrow
14) Who edited King's book Stride Toward Freedom?
Answer: Communist Stanley Levison
15) Who made the following speech?
That's exactly what we mean-- from every mountain side, let freedom
ring.Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont
and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from
the Ozarks in Arkansas, from Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia --let it ring not only for the minorities
of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth--from
every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!
Answer: Archibald Carey, 1952
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I read the declaration and just wanted to express my thankfullness that you chose to stand for us all, for demonstrating that we are one circle of light expressed in many different ways. Thank you again.
Wow, this could be an oppurtunity for the Catholic church to redeam it's self, of course this war probably could have been adverted if the Pope would have pulled a Jesus, and provided himself as a Holy Human Shield.
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