[GCFL-discuss] Fw: RE: [GCFL.net] Senior for Kerry

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Siarlys, Wow, you and I thought we fought venemently? Check this out. I sent this e-mail to a friend who I haven't heard from in ages, who never replies to e-mails and the one reply I get is this (below). I think she could have picked a better topic to have replied to. One must wonder if these are the same complaints that John has been talking about.

I wasn't forwarding this in any form of support, just as it was written, a joke, nothing more, nothing less. Just a joke.

God bless you,
Lance
All the people, lemme hear you give a holler:
IN GOD WE TRUST! IN GOD WE TRUST!
We stamp it on our penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar.
IN GOD WE TRUST! IN GOD WE TRUST!
-- "Indivisible" by Pillar

---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Lance
I really didn't like this email. If the point of it is to endorse Bush's 
policies, it's a fallacious argument. Just because Saddam Hussein is 
unhappy, doesn't mean that you can conclude that americans are happy.  This 
email mocks the real experiences of many americans in the current economic 
client, not to mention the real experience of many americans and iraqi 
civilians who lost their children in the Iraq war. It uses a fallacious, 
ignorant, mean-spirited, cyclical argument to try to undermine the valid 
complaints of Bush detractors. And to what end? Why defend the guy? Other 
than a couple of social issues, what in Bush's policies is at all Christian? 
  Killing thousands of innocent Iraqis and calling them collateral damage? 
Destroying the spirit of internationalism and the trust of the world in the 
USA? Taking the biggest surplus in US history and turning it into the 
biggest deficit?  Hating and killing enemies rather than loving them as 
Christ commanded?  Giving tax breaks to the rich rather than feeding the 
least among us as Christ did?  Claiming to be pro-life when as a governor he 
approved more executions than any other?  Sending American soldiers to their 
deaths when he himself balked military service in the most shameful ways?  
Reigning the macho, prideful attitude of Texas rather than the humble, 
cooperative, generous spirit of Christ?
Lance, despite what the US political system might be telling you, being a 
Christian in no way requires you to vote Republican or for Bush.  What does 
your heart tell you?  Ask yourself seriously, politically: what would Jesus 
do? Who would Jesus bomb? In what areas would Jesus spend the wealth of this 
great nation?
peace to you
Laura