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We have indeed lost our way again
Unfortunately, it's this country''s practice to re-write history or deny it. The holocaust upon which this nation was founded is surely the most apparent example; many follow. President Obama has not apologized to those we tortured; political maneuvering, I'm sure. And if I were President, I might feel led in the same direction for reasons unknown.
However, what I do know is that the lack of proper nomenclature on this issue is not only not healing, it reintroduces wounds every day. We all heal when we forgive; how can healing between nations occur if we won't admit we out-did the enemy in rapacious and murderous acts of inhumanity? If Rush Limbaugh called it torture, surely it is, and shame on NPR for selling out.
However, what I do know is that the lack of proper nomenclature on this issue is not only not healing, it reintroduces wounds every day. We all heal when we forgive; how can healing between nations occur if we won't admit we out-did the enemy in rapacious and murderous acts of inhumanity? If Rush Limbaugh called it torture, surely it is, and shame on NPR for selling out.
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Comment by chuck freeman on July 10, 2009 at 12:17pm - Thanks Vicki! The country has steadily been driven toward an even more imperial America the past 30 years. We have a lot of mindset shifting to do. The language will follow!
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The Free Souls Connection is an initiative of the Free Souls Project with the intention of cultivating a community of Progressive media producers and users in the areas of Spirituality, Democracy and Ethics.
We invite original written, audio, and video creations in the lineage of Spiritual Humanism, the wellspring of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, forming the basis for a healthy integration of Spirituality, Democracy, and Ethics.
Rev. Theodore Parker expresses this trinity of American values marvelously. “There is what I call the American idea…a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.”
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We invite original written, audio, and video creations in the lineage of Spiritual Humanism, the wellspring of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, forming the basis for a healthy integration of Spirituality, Democracy, and Ethics.
Rev. Theodore Parker expresses this trinity of American values marvelously. “There is what I call the American idea…a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.”
Come Ministers, Radio Hosts, Musicians, Poets, Bloggers, Cartoonists, Commentators and all artists for the common good!
Let us support, nurture, encourage, and commune with one other and our sacred world.
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