Fuck religion. If people need fear of some imaginary being in the clouds to make them be trustworthy, decent, folk, then they're not anybody I need to know or want to know. Any organization that has for its symbol, an instrument of death, as a cross was used for, is sick in the head.

Yes, it was encouraging to read about him, especially the 'I believe in Jesus, not to the exclusion of other faith traditions because my founder said that "I have others who are not of this fold" '. Did I miss the part about who his "founder" is?

Things change when people of different viewpoints but similar goals, get together to make things happen. This is why it is in the status quo advantage to divide us.

I've heard of Rev. Barber before. He seems to oppose many forms of injustice, which is a pretty good start. Belief in magical thinking is still an issue with the faithful, but he's made a start.

Is this like saying pretty athletic for a paraplegic?

Yeah, and yet these religious types always forget women as as being part of the disenfranchised and not by accident, since they are supporters of the patriarchy established by the book they still quote.

With ideas like that, he could pass for a European.

IDK if stating the obvious is smart & wise, In that religion, it's defiantly radical and brave tho.