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Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds

Started by markvans · 11 months ago

After expressing his apologies to the 50 million individuals in our world infected with the HIV/AIDS, Tom Davis goes beyond scolding the Church for its lack of initiative (“Those of us who claim to follow Christ’s teaching should be ashamed…Entire nations are going up in flames while we watch them burn,” p. 13) and challenges [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • Tom Davis

    11 months ago

    I have not heard of what is mentioned below, but there are many divisions of Coca-Cola. This article mentions Douglas Draft as CEO, not Frank Harrison. Frank is the CEO of Coca-Cola Consolidated which is the marketing and sales arm of the southeast region of the United States. He is also a board member of the Billy Graham Association. I'll bring this to his attention. Thanks!
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  • folknotions

    9 months ago

    any follow up on this?
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  • Devan

    11 months ago

    Sounds like a great book; I'll check the local library.

    I shudder to think, though, that the CEO of Coca-Cola is endorsing a book on Christian discipleship, when Coca-Cola has many well documented human rights abuses in Colombia and El Salvador:

    http://www.hrw.org/children/labor/elsalvador/

    http://www.corporatecampaign.org/killer-coke/wh...
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  • hewhocutsdown

    11 months ago

    I remember those, I did a paper in high school about the assassination of union leaders by Coca-Cola-hired guerillas. The butt end of capitalism, if you will...
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  • Devan

    11 months ago

    Yes. It's frightening. As a former member of the United Students Against Sweatshops movement, I remember on at least two occasions listening to union leaders from Colombia talk about their experiences of intimidation, violence, torture, and murder.

    One even described how a fellow union leader was dragged from his home, beheaded, and then the paramilitaries played soccer with his head. His presentation was in Spanish, and when I heard it I asked my friend sitting next to me if I had just heard him wrong. Unfortunately, I hadn't...
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  • mountainguy

    11 months ago

    Actually, this is Coca-Cola hired paramilitars (guerrilla is also bad, but they're not allied with Coca-Cola). Yes, frightening... moreover when the government is also allied with those paramilitars
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  • Michael Cline

    11 months ago

    Wow, those are some serious accusations being levied in those links. Thanks for the heads up. It would indeed be odd to think the CEO of a company involved in such human rights abuses would plug a book about social justice and protecting the disenfranchised. If you don't mind, I'll pass your comment along to the author Tom Davis, just to see what he has to say. He may be as unaware as I was.
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  • jurisnaturalist

    11 months ago

    Grr...
    I'm going to be semantical a moment here.
    Fascism is bad. Coca-Cola hired guerillas are bad. They are the opposite of free markets.
    Free markets is what I think of when I hear the word Capitalism.
    Free markets would punish Coca Cola for that kind of behavior. Because Coca Cola enjoyed protection from prosecution they were able to get away with whatever you say they did.
    I am skeptical about Sider, but haven't really given him a fair shake yet.
    We must constantly be on guard not to extrapolate that that which is good for the church will also be good for society.
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