Group items tagged war - Race and Culture

EXCLUSIVE...Pentagon Pundits: New York Times Reporter David Barstow Wins Pulitzer Prize... - 0 views

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Tavis Smiley Obama's electio as seen by Rev. Gardner Taylor - 0 views

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shared by Levy Rivers on 08 Nov 08 - Cached

Taylor: Well, I think it says that the country feels a great relief about getting rid of some of its past. I have the feeling that across the nation, people, Black and White, feel a sense of relief, of anticipation, of hope about the future and about the future of the nation. I'm rather inclined to feel that if this had not happened -- and I don't know, nobody knows what will happen -- but if this had not happened, the nation was on -- is on so precipitous a downward plunge economically, ideologically, religiously -- any way you want to put it -- that how the nation would fare in the years ahead is hard to determine and it's hard for one to feel great confidence about what it would be like. And we don't know what President Obama's going to do and what he's going to be, but he has infused into the nation a new sense of hope and promise and fulfillment.
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Taylor: Yes. Well, I have a theory -- it's maybe not a sound one -- that every 35, 40, 45 years, the nation passes through a kind of traumatic change
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And I think -- and each era seems to spend itself and to start off in a kind of enthusiasm and euphoria and confidence and then is worn down by events and by experience until it becomes cynical and doubtful
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ohn Winthrop's sermon as the Arabella came toward American shores with the people who were coming to settle here. And he said a thing in the quaint language of that day. He said, "If we can abridge ourselves of our superfluities and see about the necessities of others, we shall be --" some things between that -- "as a city set on a hill."
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There was a -- when Mr. Obama was standing for Senate seat, there was a marital -- how should I put it? -- a marital indiscretion by his opposition which ended that candidacy, and Mr. Obama came into the Senate. I'm not sure he would have been elected to the Senate, because the other person was a Harvard graduate, had a different color from Mr. Obama's, and was a person of wealth. But then that propelled him there. And now we come to a situation where a particular confluence of developments has taken place. We've had these eight years of sad direction and of disillusionment; a war. We've had the financial collapse now of our economy. There was a candidacy of a person 70-odd years old with a person joined to him of dubious capability to handle the affairs of a nation. All of these things came together.
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I believe it's divine intervention. I don't think any script writer could have produced this kind of scenario. It is almost beyond belief that all of these things would have come together at this particular juncture in history. Now, you mentioned hermeneutics -- there is a word, "chyros," in the New Testament. It means the fullness of time, that things come together to produce certain events.
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Levy Rivers on 08 Nov 08

Is this another verison of history operates in swings or movements in search of thesmes or clock like movements

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Is this another verison of history operates in swings or movements in search of thesmes or clock like movements</div>

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