Here is the church...

The latest from Hillary Clinton...

"You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

*Shakes head*

Oh, Hillary, what are we going to do with you? You have been saying for months that you're "ready on day one". But, you remember that saying about how "everything I needed to know, I learned in kindergarten"? I think maybe you were absent for an important lesson.

Here's the church, and here's the steeple
Open the door and see all the people.

All the people, Hillary. Not just the pastor. Setting aside for a moment the concepts of forgiveness and redemption, and, oh, I don't know, choosing to stay with someone who's made a mistake of some sort, disagreeing with one's pastor is not necessarily reason enough to leave one's church home.

As Deborah Brown said at Street Prophets this afternoon

To me, all these folks who yell sanctimoniously about Obama NOT leaving the church when he heard something he didn't like are only showing their true colors as people who have never been meaningfully involved in a church family.

Your church is, or should be, so much more than a single pastor-- it's the people, philosophies, works and programs that make up a combined spiritual home and physical place to be the hands and feet of God.

More here.

Just an aside, by the way. People are free think whatever they want about the value or harm of organized religion. But I believe we owe it to ourselves and each other to try to understand the relationships and contexts of people's lives through their eyes, and not just through the lens of our own biases.

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