Who Is Oppressed?

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Well I have seen people that do. Neo-Nazism is kind of a stretch.
 
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Presumably, you are referring to actual groups somewhere when you speak of “Neo-Nazis”.
 
Which brings me back to my earlier question, are you also concerned about the Easter Bunny?
 
I haven’t seen this in America much. It seems to be a problem in small local areas and some European countries.
 
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I don’t have the time to investigate all of the groups listed in that article, but I’m familiar with Jobbik (which is not by any stretch of the imagination “Neo-Nazi”), so I’ll assume that the others are also victims of libel.

If you don’t want to have something discussed in your thread, then you shouldn’t bring it up. It’s not threadjacking to respond to a claim made by the OP.
 
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Neo-nazis exist. How is this even a question when the US has crowds chanting “blood and soil” and Australia has the Antipodean Resistance (our own branch of neo-Nazi tools).
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Anyway, on topic I think @goodcatholic has a good point about people who can’t afford a house. In current times more people are being trapped in a rent cycle and denied the stability of their own home.

I also think people in rural settings are often very disadvantaged. Lacking easy access to the resources, job and training opportunities or a city can be a real detriment. Let alone places that are small enough that they don’t have good medical treatment options, I’ve seen families have to uproot entirely in situations like that to seek out medical aid and combined with the poor socio-economic environment of their home town it can be devastating.

There are some rural communities in Aus who still get their mail once a month by barge or plane depending on the place. Who have basically no internet access at home and limited amounts at schools; this is a “first world problem” in some ways but it really hurts these students ability to learn and get access to still higher education.
 
Honest question: Did St. (Mother) Teresa preach the gospel to those poorest of the poor and sickest people she tended to in Calcutta? If yes, OK then. But if not, why not, based on what you wrote here?
 
She did, perhaps in several ways - not all of which are obvious. First was her love. Her love of those with differing religions or no religion. By her organization, which is clearly Christian. By the habit she and here sisters wore. By their prayers, both public and private. As to preaching the Gospel, there are non-verbal ways of doing this, but her overt Christianity could not be separated from who she is or what she did for others. IOW, she was not one of the great orators or preachers - not her charism. At the same time, her sparse words bore huge import. What she was, was a great lover of G-d and of souls.

I have a book coming about her and should know bit more in the weeks ahead. What is meaningless in the ultimate sense is simply performing physical acts which have no purpose of improving the spiritual state of the receiver, or which contain or lead toward any eternal intent.
 
As to oppression, who am I talking to? Jews, very sadly, are the acknowledged experts on oppression. I hope that at least some of it made sense. No doubt you have been approached or confronted by “born agains” who, when they were not thumping the bible, were trying to beat you over the head with it!

I have much more respect for the word of G-d than that. In any event, that is a poor manner of trying to spread what we believe to be good news. And, though I grant them good intentions, well do we know which road is paved with them.
 
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I actually had a somewhat funny experience with a woman I assume to have been a “born-again” Protestant. I was getting on a bus and noticed this woman smiling at me. At first I thought maybe she knew me from somewhere–a former student of mine who I sometimes run into–and then, when she kept smiling but said nothing, I thought maybe she was trying to pick me up, and I was kind of flattered, especially at my age since she was much younger. So I couldn’t avoid sitting next to her, and then it happened. Still smiling, she asked me if I knew Jesus. Normally, I might have said nothing, but, not wanting to appear impolite or unfriendly, I engaged her in a brief conversation about my own faith. She then insisted that the NT is the promise of the OT, and that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah and the only means to salvation. She seemed to want me to convert on the spot. Since I had reached my stop, she told me she would pray for me, and I returned the favor. This was my most recent experience with a born-again Christian.
 
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Merits for zeal, but demerits for tact.

And, the dyslexic history reveals a perhaps later appreciated naivete.
 
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Most progressives see racism behind every tree,around every corner, under every rock, and more.
 
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