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Conservative Religious Influence

The warning, given to me 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global, Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of those who expounded it. But Adams warned us against the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery. The Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological inheritors had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible. - Chris Hedges (From his article: The Christian Right and the Rise of American Fascism, 2011)

God is Anti-War
The freedom movement provides a better home than the Religious Right for Christian conservatives. George Hawley - Eight years of the Bush administration have made it abundantly clear that to many conservatives “strong national defense” really means “unnecessary wars.” Yet the best traditions of conservatism are antithetical to militarism. An unbiased observer should have no trouble at all fi...
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Religion and militarism
NNOMY/Compilation - As one might suspect, the issue of cultural militarism and religion has evoked some controversial opinions from voices within differing religious persuasions, that are questioning...
Categories Conservative Religious Influence
Tags catholicism | evangelicalism | judaism | Militarism

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Christian Peacemaker Corps:

Harmeet Sooden CPT workers make up what we call the "Peacemaker Corps." Teams of trained Corps members enter emergency situations of conflict and areas of militarization in partnership with local peacemakers. Responding to Christ's radical call, they attempt to bring God's redemptive love to violent situations.

Teams of 2 to 12 persons join the efforts of local peacemakers facing imminent violence by:

Providing a nonviolent presence with individuals or communities who are threatened
Physically intervening to prevent violence
Reporting on human rights abuses
Planning and carrying out creative, nonviolent public responses to injustice
Training others in nonviolent direct action
Speaking and writing to media, interested groups, congregations, and organizations

Stipend Eligible:Full-time and Part-time Corps members commit to a three-year term of service on CPT projects.
- Full-time is a minimum average of nine months a year on a CPT project. This time might be split up in 3-6 month chunks depending on the particular CPT project.
- Part-time is a minimum of 4.5 months per year in a CPT project. This can also be split into two service periods on-project. When not serving on-project, stipend eligible CPTers live in their home communities participating in advocacy, fundraising and personal time-off.
Reserve Corps: The Reserve Corps members reinforce the work of every Christian Peacemaker team by providing a larger pool of trained peacemakers who commit to working with CPT (2 to 16 weeks each year) for three years.

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The Ground Truth

THE GROUND TRUTH- a moving and powerful documentary from Patricia Foulkrod's. This seven minutes is a glimpse of the filmmaker's subjects who are patriotic young Americans -- ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq -- as they experience recruitment, training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home -- with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all - the truth. Watch this unbelieveable 7 minute clip from the film.

War Resisters' International: Nonviolence Handbook

Social change doesn't just happen. It's the result of the work of committed people striving for a world of justice and peace. The work gestates in groups or cells of activists, in discussions, in training sessions, in reflecting on previous experiences, in planning, in experimenting and in learning from others. Preparing ourselves for our work for social justice is key to its success.

This Handbook shares what people have already developed in different contexts.

It includes sections on:

• developing strategic nonviolent campaigns
• preparing for effective nonviolent actions (complete with checklist)
• exercises for working in nonviolence (including group dynamics and gender issues)
• stories and strategies both showing the use of nonviolent organising tools in specific settings and describing global campaigns.

There is no definitive recipe for successful nonviolent actions and campaigns. This handbook, however, is a series of resources that can inspire and support your own work, especially if you adapt the resources to your own needs and context. This handbook has been a collaborative effort of people working in nonviolence within the WRI network from Australia, Belgium, Britain, Colombia, Chile, Germany, Italy, Israel, South Korea, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey, and the USA.

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