In comment #4, Post blogger Michael Conniff responds to the dry wit of Mitch Mulhall on the pressing issue of Church v. State--or, if you prefer, God v. Satan.
"A simple vinyl banner to let the community know where the church gathers to worship while their future, more permanent home is continually being held up in court by Pitkin County. Check the US Supreme Court rulings over the past decades."
"The church, now visible from Highway 82, has seemed on the verge of completion for months, even though building that has yet to sport the telltale sign of the Cross," blogs the Con Man. "Given the inevitability of yet another Christian Church in the valley, concerned locals simply ran out of protests. A church, after all, is far more benign than a McDonald's, or so the story goes. And that was that, from my perspective--until the wife espied the cheerful green banner in front of the Eagle County municipal building Sunday afternoon, with the words: 'Grace Church Gathers Here,' with the times for 'Sunday worship.'"
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The arrival of Grace Church at 1776 Emma Road in Basalt--1776 is not a misprint--roiled the community in Emma as they contemplate a megachurch, albeit a teensy one, in their midst. Dead center in the Roaring Fork Valley, the more liberal members of the town were universally concerned at the prospect of hundreds of Evangelicals worshipping in their midst.
The founders of Grace Church were nothing if not resilient, and managed to beat back all challenges. The church, now visible from Highway 82, has seemed on the verge of completion for months, even though building that has yet to sport the telltale sign of the Cross. Given the inevitability of yet another Christian Church in the valley, concerned locals simply ran out of protests. A church, after all, is far more benign than a McDonald's, or so the story goes.
And that was that, from my perspective, was that--until the wife espied the cheerful green banner in front of the Eagle County municipal building Sunday afternoon, with the words: "Grace Church Gathers Here," with the times for Sunday worship.
Continue Reading February 21st, 2010
I believe I am part of the liberal center. Those of us here, do not care one iota about whether we are "white" "black" Native American or Asian. We don't care if we pray to "God" via the Torah, various permutations of the Bible, or Koran. If we sing chants to lord Krishna or Buddha, meditate in Taoism or do a Druid dance, or have no God, that is fine too. Speaking other languages gives us an opportunity to learn nuances of language, different from our own whatever that might be where ever that might be. We are accepting, even embracing and we are all able to get along with each other perfectly well.
Continue Reading July 27th, 2009
By Frosty Wooldridge
Black Harvard Professor Gates’ arrest this past week focuses on a greater crisis within America. Racial and ethnic incompatibility! While the United States pretends to be a happy bouquet of racial equality and ethnic calm—the harsh reality remains that this nation remains forever divided along racial lines. Worse, with massive immigration of millions from incompatible races and religions—we find ourselves becoming a nation of strangers cobbled together by police hegemony.
Continue Reading July 24th, 2009
Part I: Islam Conquest of Europe and Beyond
By Frosty Wooldridge
Multi-culturalism scorched the streets of Paris two years ago ! Multi-culturalism burns and kills in France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Britain. Recent violence proves that disparate cultures cannot exist together. Do Americans understand what is happening or are we too stupid to read the writing on the wall?
Stick around because Americans roll over and sleep as the Muslim and Mexican invasion accelerates in the United States. But when you awake, our country suffers exactly the same fate as France, Britain, Germany, Holland and Belgium. It’s only a matter of time.
Continue Reading July 21st, 2009
I attended Mr. Pipes' talk on Thursday. The mood was set by the police in the lobby and one standing guard in the auditoriun during the presentation. His talk focused on Muslims taking over the world and subjecting all of us to Shria law. This is an unlikely outcome. Not all Muslim activists have the above goal. According to wifes of Al Qaeda fighters, in Afganistan, they are fighting against the West's taking Muslim land and killing Muslims and supporting those (Israel) who do.
Continue Reading July 18th, 2009
By Frosty Wooldridge
An odd thing happened to the United States in the 21st century as it tripped into quicksand over its guilt-ridden past of discrimination toward minorities such as Native Americans, Asians, Blacks and Latinos. What happened?
After all, the fact remains that white settlers trespassed, ravaged, and slaughtered 522 Indian tribes—their languages, cultures and ways of life. Anyone reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee or The Sand Creek Massacre cannot help but cry at the brutality committed against the aborigines of North America in the 1800s.
Continue Reading July 17th, 2009
Notre Dame University found itself at the epicenter of controversy concerning President Obama’s speech at their 2009 graduation commencement. Concerned anti-abortion demonstrators protested that a “pro-abortion” president should not speak at the Catholic university that condemns the procedure.
Passions boiled around campus with national news coverage. Students demonstrated while airplanes flew over campus with banners depicting aborted fetuses. Police handcuffed preachers and former presidential candidates for demonstrating without permits.
Ironically, the Catholic Church and other religious institutions around the world constitute the main cause for 46 million abortions performed planet-wide each year.
Continue Reading May 18th, 2009
When faith fails, true believers on the political Right can always turn to science. Nowhere is the tactic more egregious than when the Righties need to defend marriage as between a man or a woman--a union that neither gay man nor beast can put asunder.
Continue Reading April 28th, 2009
Ahh.... There are so many causes to choose or to be against. Filled with passion, many leap right into these causes. "I have to have a purpose," -- many think. Be a part of something and support something "good." Anti-immigration, communism, capitalism, white, black, patriotism, American Christianites, Democrat, Republican -- this can't be rocket science. The plethora of possibilities in the types of causes is limited by the imagination of humanity, humane or inhumane.
The anti immigration crowd's self identity is probably statistically close to being homogenous. Their silver bullet is; stop anyone that doesn't look like us, pray like us, and speak American like us, from the further dilution of our self identified demographic in my country! Yeah! Grab yer pitchfork and drive 'em out!(who needed Einstein or Werner von Braun {or Obama he he he})
The Communists decry the evils of capitalist imperialism. If we could just get rid of the the greedy self serving class inducing capitalists and the nation-states they hide behind. We can kill most of the motivation for productivity and fly our own flag over the entire planet. (Wait, that doesn't sound so good. Any questions why that failed?)
Continue Reading April 27th, 2009
Because we live so obviously and obliviously within the tyranny of the moment—don’t be bitter about Twitter—it’s easy as apple pie to miss the steps on the way to the conservative abyss.
William F. Buckley Jr., the late loquacious Godfather of the movement, famously said of feminists: “Give them an inch, they’ll take a mile”—this as a proposition to be debated with Germaine Greer. In the 21st Century, the Right is giving up inch after inch on a myriad of social issues so as not to appear both absurd and irrelevant. Creationism, gay marriage, and climate change are the power trio of this kind of conservative political impotence.
Continue Reading April 20th, 2009
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