Reconstructing reality is a spiritual task. Countering the smear campaign against Cindy Sheehan.

Much of the news we get here in Florida is packaged to give a distorted view on reality, to accept and be shaped by such information is to be come subjected to the prevailing religion which worships power, privilege and violence.  Reconstructing reality is a spiritual necessity, indeed it is a theological task.  It is a necessary prerequisite to a free and responsible search for truth and meaning,

It is good to know that some of the people of Crawford, Texas understand hospitality.  They tell me Texas is in the Bible belt, and the Bible is strong on hospitality.  The injunction "You were strangers in a strange land, take care of the strangers in your midst" is repeated over in the Hebrew Bible in various forms.  Here is a story of one resident of Crawford who is living that ethic.  It is good to have stories of human beings involved in the struggle to witness a new vision of what our country may be.  That isn't "too political," rather it is witnessing  our Unitarian Universalist values.

Sometimes it is good to get an alternative news commentary that is aggressive and to the point.  Listen this blogcast of Rachel Maddow show. She talks about many things in the news, she goes into the right-wing talking points that seek to smear Cindy Sheehan as a "fake." Rush Limbaugh even seems to be suggesting that Sheehan's son did not die in Iraq!