Comments on: Food For Thought on this Thanksgiving http://uppitynegronetwork.com/2008/11/27/food-for-thought-on-this-thanksgiving/ a place to embrace your inner Uppity Negro Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:56:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: the uppity negro http://uppitynegronetwork.com/2008/11/27/food-for-thought-on-this-thanksgiving/#comment-1088 the uppity negro Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:02:04 +0000 http://uppitynegronetwork.wordpress.com/?p=1036#comment-1088 @adamson After realizing what I really believed in as God-given human rights simply because we "be" humans, I realized that it falls within the realms of socialism, and I'm okay with that. @ABMWGLP I use "salvation" in the traditional sense in lieu of using another word that wouldn't drive my point home quite the same way. The salvation in which I speak of amounts to the ultimate reconciliation to the Deity. @adamson

After realizing what I really believed in as God-given human rights simply because we “be” humans, I realized that it falls within the realms of socialism, and I’m okay with that.

@ABMWGLP

I use “salvation” in the traditional sense in lieu of using another word that wouldn’t drive my point home quite the same way. The salvation in which I speak of amounts to the ultimate reconciliation to the Deity.

]]> By: A Black Man's White Gay Life Partner http://uppitynegronetwork.com/2008/11/27/food-for-thought-on-this-thanksgiving/#comment-1086 A Black Man's White Gay Life Partner Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:51:46 +0000 http://uppitynegronetwork.wordpress.com/?p=1036#comment-1086 Thank you for your thought on this day. I fear that the country is so tightly contolled by the interests of the miniscule American elite that a Democratic Socialist society is unlikely to come to fruition in my lifetime. The average American has been conditioned to cower at the mere word "socialism". Overcoming that will take decades of re-education, despite the highly successful implementation of socialist programs in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany, to name a few of the countries whose names do not strike fear into the heart of the average American. On a personal level, I do believe reconciliation unto God to be a universal right. I do not quite understand your usage of "salvation." The word has been misused successfully for centuries as one of the church's (with "church" a catchall word for any number of religions and denominations) weapons of control, maintenance of social order, and personal submission to will of the church's leaders. I do not require either human or divine salvation. Thank you for your thought on this day. I fear that the country is so tightly contolled by the interests of the miniscule American elite that a Democratic Socialist society is unlikely to come to fruition in my lifetime. The average American has been conditioned to cower at the mere word “socialism”. Overcoming that will take decades of re-education, despite the highly successful implementation of socialist programs in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany, to name a few of the countries whose names do not strike fear into the heart of the average American.

On a personal level, I do believe reconciliation unto God to be a universal right. I do not quite understand your usage of “salvation.” The word has been misused successfully for centuries as one of the church’s (with “church” a catchall word for any number of religions and denominations) weapons of control, maintenance of social order, and personal submission to will of the church’s leaders. I do not require either human or divine salvation.

]]> By: adamson http://uppitynegronetwork.com/2008/11/27/food-for-thought-on-this-thanksgiving/#comment-1084 adamson Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:04:39 +0000 http://uppitynegronetwork.wordpress.com/?p=1036#comment-1084 I like this post. I hadn't realized that you were in favor of a Democratic Socialist society :) -adamson I like this post.

I hadn’t realized that you were in favor of a Democratic Socialist society :)

-adamson

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