Sunday, July 08, 2018

DO NOT Tolerate The Intolerable! Biblical?

What Would Jesus Do? ... 
Is NOT Tolerating Intolerable Behaviour, or People Tolerable?

Martin Luther King Said:
"An Injustice Anywhere is A Threat To Justice Everywhere."
Is NOT Accepting Intolerance,
returning the same Intolerance,
the same as "Repaying evil for evil"?
Are we "Un-Christian" in defending the defenseless,
poor and marginalized against the current White House administration?

Or, are our actions exactly Just and justified?
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D Michael Blackie
July 6 at 10:36 PM
#SocialJustice and "Public Shaming". Is it "Christian" or, 'the right thing to do' to call people out publicly? "When they go low we go high..."? Do we? Really? Where is it written? Do "Christians" have to 'be nice'? I've long held that it's OK to proclaim and shame! Go ahead! Call 'em out! Call 'em ALL out! 
Wrong is wrong. And, some would claim the "Two wrongs don't make a right" adage. But, if as Christians, ethicists, advocates of and for those on the fringes, the marginalized, if WE DO NOT Speak up, Speak Out, we are complicit and derelict in our 'duty' to those #Jesus entrusted to us!
This article, with which I adamantly agree - sums it up quite nicely. The same Lord that spoke about being 'meek-and-mild' was also fairly 'mean and wild'....
Public Shaming CAN Be A #Justice Action...  [By the way, those of us in 'The Church' CAN and should be holding The Church accountable too]!
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Do Not Tolerate the Intolerable: Public Shaming Can Be a Justice Action
Jesus of Nazareth publicly shamed those leaders he saw were committing injustice in his time, calling them out (Matt. 23:13). Jesus didn’t hesitate to be confrontational. "You hypocrites!" he cried out... 







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The Declaration: A Tribute, In Song (Circa 1970's)

"The Declaration" By The Fifth Dimension By Brother Michael, OSL ABOUT: The Fifth Dimension ("5th Dimension") - In 1965, Ron Towson (Deceased 2001, aged 68), and a childhood friend, LaMonte McLemore, formed a singing group called the Versatiles. They soon were renamed the 5th Dimension at the suggestion of Townson's wife, after 'the 5th dimension' of consciousness. Ascension into the Fifth Dimension, according to ascension teachings, the earth and all beings living on the earth are in the process of shifting into a whole new level of reality in which a consciousness of love, compassion, peace and spiritual wisdom prevails. This has been called the Fifth Dimension. Remember, this was the 70's. Hippies. The "Generation of Peace" [GOP], a Slogan coined by the Nixon Campaign. He was the President who officially ended the War in Viet-Nam.
Other original members of The 5th Dimension, were Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, and Billy Davis; who were eventually married. She turned 75 in 2017.
Early on, some critics, Black and White, dismissed the smooth-sounding group as Black singers trying to sound white. "I know some people accuse us of singing white, but it makes me laugh," Townson told the Los Angeles Times in 1970. "It is based on ignorance. People sing styles. They don't sing colors."
What always appealed to me about this song, as a young radical teen, was that here, was a "Black" music group, SINGING about a document that never had their ancestors best interests at heart. In 1970, some Southern States were STILL denying Blacks the Right to Vote!
Image result for 5th dimension portrait album cover I was in High School (an "Alternative" Remedial-Disciplinary School). My mother, involved with activism, bought me the "Album". I fell in love with the "Declaration" immediately--and introduced to my friends--Black and white. We were studying U S history ("Civics") then. It was appropriate, for the class--and the times.
For me, now, these days, these times... are a great time to re-introduce this to ALL of America. "That Whenever Any Form Of Government Becomes Destructive of These Ends, It Is The RIGHT of The People To Alter or ABOLISH it"! That, alone, has the later crafted "First Amendment" written all over it!
WHY? Why in 2018, are we living, existing, accepting, some condoning, some promoting a #Despot in office, and a tyrannical pseudo government, when WE The People ..then, overthrew a whole other Country and a despotic "King? ... To now, be under the illegitimate 'rule' of a wanna-be dictator, charletan, imaginary 'king'... is just unacceptable! "We Hold These Truths to be self evident"...  ...that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the RIGHT of the People to alter, or Abolish it, and; to institute new governments..."  I'll just let Marilyn Mc Coo (Davis), Billy Davis, et al explain.... 

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© DMB dba ARGO-Liberty Communications~Philadelphia
04-July-2018
Previously appeared in a different format/version
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© D. Michael Blackie, Principal/Owner 2018 aka Brother Michael, OSL  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
DMB Communications dba ARGO-Liberty Communications~Philadelphia, LLC 

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