courageous souls? w/god on their side

[Jon Ford]

The young women who were captured for preaching jesus to the masses are 
rather annoying, to be sure. I saw a young  fundamentalist fellow from North 
Carolina profiled a couple of weeks ago on some TV news show who reminded me 
of the best kind of Peace Corps-style community service types; he was living 
in the mountainous, desert-like Northern Alliance controlled area, under 
constant attack from the Taliban, and he was doing a sort of "work for food" 
deal--distributing grain rations to those who pitched in and rebuilt bombed 
out houses, or crafted new ones along the ancient mud-hut style (with a few 
little improvements thrown in). He came across as an idealistic youth, 
really smart, and one who had totally merged with the culture, even dressing 
in the local garb and growing a large beard. Maybe he was a little wacky, 
but he seemed sincere, useful, and the people seemed to love him. As for his 
religion, he remarked that everybody knew he was for Jesus, but he didn't 
preach about it-- he was just there to help out.

Jon




>From: StepCher@aol.com
>To: connie_3c@yahoo.com, austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: Re: courageous souls? w/god on their side
>Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:28:00 EST
>
>
>In a message dated 11/27/01 9:03:08 AM, connie_3c@yahoo.com writes:
>
><< Is it just me? or do others feel a tinge of disgust >>
>
>how about a tidal wave of disgust. they were interviewed on tv this am.
>chilling.
>
>those damn fundamentalists have been passing out their right wing lit here 
>so
>we godless gothamites might be saved from the future wrath of their small
>minded saviour--who clearly was teaching us a lesson on 9.11.
>
>
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