There is hope in young Christian Conservatives-Really!!!

[Tsiyu]

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/fishwrapper.html

From John Sugg's "Fishwrapper" column:


(this concerns high school students being placed in internships with Repukes in a Repuke-dominated district, and one student's complaint about her treatment)

snip

In the fall of 2003, Thompson placed McMichen into Hobbs' clutches. Thus began the student's political awakening -- but not in the way Thompson surely hoped.

"You think there's an executive there when you call, but no, it was just a 17-year-old intern, me, making $200 a month," McMichen says. "I had it all, if you look at it one way. A big corner office with big windows. I rubbed shoulders with the who's who ... Newt , Hastert, Gillespie, Sonny Purdue, all the time, and even Dick Cheney himself. And, oh yes, Zell Miller, but he was the only Democrat I met."

Pretty heady stuff. If she had done what was expected -- play brain-dead -- there would have been some nice payback. "The college recommendation letter opportunities were booming," she says. Hobbs offered McMichen, an aspiring journalist, a job on his right-wing scandal sheet, Georgia Citizen.

Then came McMichen's epiphany. "I began being more passionate about politics when I was passing out a resolution supporting the war," she recalls. "I realized I was against the war. Period. War is not a Christian value."

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[bobbieinok]

1. see also his essay in Nov, 'I'm a Christian too'

[Tsiyu]

4. I heard it was a Humdinger

I'll have to check it out.

About the only thing I miss in Atlanta is the quality of writing in the Loaf.

Nashville's Scene is just not as cozy or human as the Loaf.

So there.

[hedda_foil]

2. Look at THIS!

And McMichen says partisanship permeates Marietta High. "In American government class," she says, "Democrats are depicted as only minorities, as only people who need handouts."

[Tsiyu]

5. Don't you love it!

The party of FDR, JFK etc, etc, etc is now the party of pathetic urchins, lost in the mist of liberalism....makes you want to laugh and heave at the same time.

[jmellis44]

3. Do you give any credence to just-war theory?

Just asking to see if there are many Thomists here.

[kamqute]

7. Well, let's be specific

If by Thomist you mean one who agrees with/believes in all of the teachings of Thomas, no (I haven't memorized them all anyway and many are probably hidden :)--if you mean someone who takes the doctrines, discourse, ideas, beliefs and tone extremely provocative and useful as a guide in thought and conduct, that's me. As to Just War, I think the doctrine itself is fairly ambiguous, and that some interpretations I agree with, though certainly not the mainstream ones. As it is laid out by Thomas fairly explicitly, I would probably say no in that case, at least to what he seems to be saying at face value.

Thomas rules!

[Tsiyu]

8. Aren't you the brave one!

I was just gonna leave that alone.....:evilgrin:

[kamqute]

6. There is hope in everyone

And what does n/t mean? Does it mean there's nothing in the body of the post?

[Tsiyu]

9. "nother thought"

Sorry this didn't get ya anywhere. Who used n/t on this thread? I'll go back n check.