Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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That’s why I suggest we pray. I understand you don’t believe that but many people as sophisticated as you – including many doctors & scientists – see it otherwise. That’s why freedom of religion, which includes the freedom not to believe, is so important. We don’t have to agree.
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Thanks so much for informing me. Let’s make sure we tell Thomas Aquinas, Saint Augustine, Tolstoy and Albert Einstein. They’ll need to know.
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2/ Then the question might be "What do we do?" But that's actually not the first question. The most important questions are: "Am I willing to not ignore this? To not deny this?" If the answer is "Yes I'm willing," the answer will become clear in time. The change begins inside us.
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1/ This isn't so much a time to learn what we don't know, as a time to own up to what we do know. The US government is telling its own citizens that their lives are not as important as preserving an economic status quo. It actually worked that way before, but just more obscured.
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In Viet Nam they've set up ATM-like machines that are dispensing free rice. The US delivers free food to nations in distress all the time. We could do it here now, absolutely.
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Tomorrow, join us for five minutes of global prayer / meditation / silence at noon New York time.
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3/Each of us has to answer the question for ourselves; how we answer it will determine whether we participate in the reinvention of our civilization at the end of this, or acquiesce to its continued devolution. It’s as big a challenge as any generation ever faced. It’s up to us.
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No one knows better than I the tough game those people play, the lengths they’ll go to get rid of an inconvenient person. But we have to deal with the most critical issue first: making sure Trump doesn’t win. What will we do then? Not sure. But we must take care of 1st things 1st
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2/ Will we align our political and economic systems with our awareness of that responsibility? That remains to be seen. But how we answer the question will determine the sustainability of human life on earth in the 21st-century.
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Their respect or lack of respect isn’t predicated on our votes one way or the other. That’s definitely a problem, I give you that, but it’s not one that gets fixed by not voting.
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I like Ralph Nader, but a lot of people didn’t vote for Gore in 2000 for that reason. Millions of dead Iraqis resulted. Nothing holy or pure there.
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I see it the opposite way. If Trump wins, I fear a suppression of all kinds of political activity. We should not underestimate what he would try to do with a second term.
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“Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.” - MLK Jr
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