Joseph C. Hough on NOW with Bill Moyers

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

Did anyone see this guy? Joseph C. Hough, is "former dean of the Vanderbilt Divinity School, is currently President of the Faculty and William E. Dodge Professor of Social Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary."

He was just on Bill Moyers and he had some very interesting and refreshing things to say about social inequality and the religious person's response to it. Here's a link to the transcript:

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_hough.html

I've never heard of him before. I'm an atheist but I really respected him and thought everything he said was pretty much right on.

[wuushew]

1. He basically said Delay was full of shit

which was awesome. I like the fruit inspector analogy

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

3. That was wonderful

I am pretty ignorant about the more esoteric points of theology, but I know one thing for sure: Tom DeLay is a shitty Christian. The way Hough summed up the THEOLOGICAL poverty of the far right was unbelievably articulate.

[Monaco]

2. He was very good

and I agree with everything he said, but I think the segment on the striking workers at the Tyson plant in Jefferson,WI was much more important.

[wuushew]

4. I am 10 miles from Jefferson

Plenty of boycott Tyson signs, the company is truly evil.

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

6. It depends

To me they're both very intertwined issues, so I sort of saw both segments as two parts of the same story.

[kaitykaity]

5. Locking. Dupe.

Please discuss here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=586644

[HereSince1628]

7. He forsees the need for civil disobedience!

I admit to being astonished to have watched that!