Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Social Justice

One of my coworkers recently passed on a link to a page on Willow Creek Community Church’s website showcasing a class they’re holding on social justice: https://classes.willowcreek.org/default.aspx?page=3258&profile=509&eventid=509&pageid=3241&sort=date&pprofile=2

What’s interesting about this is that there’s a lot of stuff being promoted by a group called Sojourners. Being the civic-minded person that I am, I poked around their website, reading their mission statements, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s time for me to start my own cult social justice group. I think I’ll call it Civic Apprehension™©® because you have to apprehend civics, lest you become oppressed by the Bourgeois.


Since every good cult social justice group needs a vapid content-less mission statement comprised solely of catchphrases to fawn over, I hereby offer the Civic Apprehension™©® Mission Statement of Purpose™©®:


Civic Apprehension™©® was created in 2010 by activists seeking to broaden social constructs through the diverse surveying of various political theories, filtered through the scope of a homogenous application of a heterogeneous zeitgeist, consisting of three main principals: 1) the adherence to eco-friendly machinations, derived from a green pathos; 2) the promotion of self-awareness via attitudinal metamorphosis (with special attention to avoiding phobic deprecation of disadvantaged groups, whether it be through personal fault or via systemic oppression); and 3) metastasizing our current prospects so they can more effectually integrate an impactful change in socio-economic discourse, providing a new launch-point from which we can more effectively oversee the upkeep of a sanitized program of personal responsibility, invested with cultural and communal traditions, without distorting the individual aspect of transmutable lifestyles through needless judgmentalistic prejudice.
I hereby appoint myself President, CEO, and Grand Poobah of Civic Apprehension™©® with the formal declaration that since Civic Apprehension™©® is a bold cult ministry, any time Civic Apprehension™©® is printed it must be in bold font style. Plus you have to send me $10 because I put a ™©® at the end of it.

9 comments:

  1. "What’s interesting about this is that there’s a lot of stuff being promoted by a group called Sojourners."

    Is this your first exposure to Sojourners and Jim Wallis?

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  2. TUAD asked:
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    Is this your first exposure to Sojourners and Jim Wallis?
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    Nope. But the first time I saw WCCC had associated with them. (Can't say I typically follow WCCC, after all.)

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  3. Wallis is a marxist. He's accepted a quarter of a million dollar donation from George Soros.

    http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2010/08/wallis_admits_t.html

    There's nothing in Christianity that requires you to be gullible cretins with regards to marxist plants like this guy.

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  4. I am contemplating starting my own social justice ministry named APPREHENSION CIVIC APREHENSION with no trade mark, copyright or registration fees.

    This organization will be diverse in nature. It will draw from all classes of society and economic streams. We will be well financed. We will not stop until we have taken our objection all the way to the Hague to stop you.

    I was wondering though, if you might give me some guidance? How did you do that? I mean I just can't figure out how to put TM, the circle with the C in the middle or the circle with the R in the middle after
    APPREHENSION CIVIC APPREHENSION?

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  5. I once toyed with writing a fake masthead introduction to an article in a secular humanist magazine talking about how such and such a famous free thinker discusses his/her previously secret life to the horror of the morality police with delightfully raw candor.

    Then again, I was at a missional relevant new Calvinist megachurch for a while and realized that anyone can unknowingly get sucked into jargon. :) I reconciled myself to a propensity for jargon by attending a fairly conservative Presbyterian church. ;-)

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  6. But if you sign up for their magazine, you can get a FREE Ghandi poster!

    What is your new organization offering?

    I'm thinking Dalai Lama placemats!

    Good luck with your new org

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  7. Constantine asked:
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    What is your new organization offering?
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    For a limited time, if you donate $100 or more, you can use the Civic Apprehension™©® logo five times without having to pay the $10 fee.

    Trust me, you won't find a better deal anywhere on the internet.



    Wenatchee said:
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    I reconciled myself to a propensity for jargon by attending a fairly conservative Presbyterian church.
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    All you need is lots of acronyms. "The GA recommended TEs notify REs about the BOCO's stance on WIC, with special attention given to WCF XVIII:2, lest the FV/NPP controversy undermine a full defense of TULIP. The motion was tabled."

    Natamllc asked:
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    I was wondering though, if you might give me some guidance? How did you do that? I mean I just can't figure out how to put TM, the circle with the C in the middle or the circle with the R in the middle after APPREHENSION CIVIC APPREHENSION?
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    If you don't feel like memorizing the unicode values, the easiest way is to copy and paste them from the above :-) You can also make them appear in Word if you have it on default settings. Just type each character group in parentheses to get the result. For example,

    Type: (c)

    to get: ©


    Finally, Thnuh said:
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    There's nothing in Christianity that requires you to be gullible cretins with regards to marxist plants like this guy.
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    This might be the first time I've agreed with you :-)

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  8. Thanks, Peter, for both the pithy comeback and interesting post.

    Have a Merry Christmas!

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  9. Thanks, do I still have to pay the $10 fee?

    I think the $100.00 deal makes sense seeing you waive the $10.00?

    Wait just a minute™©®(c)...!

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