I went to church today...
March 9, 2015 at 1:26 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2015 at 1:42 am by SteelCurtain.)
In Selma, Alabama. I didn't really go inside the church, but I did watch the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have a competition to see who could get more of the SPIRIT-UH!
What a freaking day, people. Selma was expecting 30,000 people---70,000 showed up. We marched from Brown Chapel where James Bevel, Amelia Boynton, and Dr. King marched, down the street, and over the Edmund Pettus Bridge to Montgomery. 50 years ago, the 600 protesters who were protesting the ridiculous systemic voting disenfranchisement of minorities were met at the bottom of that bridge with billy clubs, dogs, and tear gas. Because they wanted their voices heard. Walking over that bridge with all those people was an experience I'll never forget.
Here are some pics:
70,000 people! It was moving.
What a freaking day, people. Selma was expecting 30,000 people---70,000 showed up. We marched from Brown Chapel where James Bevel, Amelia Boynton, and Dr. King marched, down the street, and over the Edmund Pettus Bridge to Montgomery. 50 years ago, the 600 protesters who were protesting the ridiculous systemic voting disenfranchisement of minorities were met at the bottom of that bridge with billy clubs, dogs, and tear gas. Because they wanted their voices heard. Walking over that bridge with all those people was an experience I'll never forget.
Here are some pics:
![[Image: 16141233713_51b0be1dc2_z.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7645/16141233713_51b0be1dc2_z.jpg)
![[Image: 16574007530_1d0730cceb_z.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8697/16574007530_1d0730cceb_z.jpg)
![[Image: 16735522506_9af0948269_z.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7647/16735522506_9af0948269_z.jpg)
![[Image: 16574006530_68986ccee9_z.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8696/16574006530_68986ccee9_z.jpg)
70,000 people! It was moving.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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