Wal-Mart gives more to Gays.

Man, another place to boycott

Where am I going to find toilet paper?

 

I wish you people got this passionate about sweatshops and conglomerates pushing single-family farms out of business.

Fighing homosexuality is so much sexier than addressing real injustice in the world, isn't it?


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Good point - why do we not boycott products where children are virtual slaves in order for us the get cheap goods?

 

I'm going to hazard a guess... Sweatshops are protested by <gasp> liberals. (Same for conglomerates pushing single-family farms out of business.)

What the horror. The world just might come to an end if "liberals" and the "Christian right" were affiliated in any way. Who cares about the cause?

 

What about "boycott WalMart" do you not understand?

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Your all about greed aren't you, you assume becasue everyone else doesn't do what you do it must be becasue they are greedy. Where do you get this figure of $25 ? Let me tell you if I stopped shopping at Wal Mart it would cost me a lot mor ethen that, and you assume I even have an extra $25. This month my water was cut off, a few months ago it was my electric. This past week when I went grocery shopping I bought bread milk, eggs and crackers, becasue I didn't have money for more.
Some people may be made of money and be able to afford to spend more, like money grows on trees, money is no object, but for the rest of us we go without. Something you obviously know nothing about.
So stop putting people who don't have much donw becasue they don't have what you have.

 

Thinking products, not shops.

 

The Bible doesn't condmn slavery, but it condmens homosexuality.

 

I was kidding about boycotting Mal Mart, BTW. If you start boycotting one company, you better boycott all of them, because there will be something wrong about each one. We are told to live in the world but not be part of it (sin)...not boycott the stores in it.

 

And here I had already bought some "Boycott Wal-Mart" signs and hung them in the yard.

Y'all just ruined all my fun.:laugh:

 

Perhaps the problem is even deeper...

It's relatively easy, and (in certain circles) popular, to protest the actions and beliefs of others.

Facing the reality of goods produced in sweatshops, items manufactured and sold to benefit unjust regimes, and the fruits of modern slavery means that we must go further than simply griping or boycotting - we must change our lifestyles. For North Americans, that's simply too much to ask.

 

You made an accusation about webdog's mental status, but I noticed you did nothing to prove webdog wrong.

I challenge you to find one place in scripture that condemns slavery.

 

Don't count on it. Tragic's a troll.

 

Hmmm... It says something about loving your neighbor in there, I think. Being kind to the stranger and alien, too. I would argue that if one does something unthinkable - that is, reading Scripture in its context, rather than developing a theology through prooftexting and what our pastor tells us to believe, we will find that Scripture supports a common love and support of humans for one another that would make slavery impossible. Kind of hard, after all, to "regard others as better than yourself" and own them at the same time.

But I forget that, for many of you, the historical context of Scripture is irrelevant. I apologize for expecting too much from you.

 

I think all we can do is what is in front of us. Buying coffee from places that deal in fair-trade, for example, and shopping for cliothing made in sweat-free shops comes to mind.

If everyone focuses on doing the next thing, we'll get it all accomplished.