If you support any ribbon campaigns, particularly the Breast cancer pink ribbons or the soldier yellow ribbon ones, you might be better off not opening this cut.
Blunt, honest, and to the point. Also, counter-popular. No argument whatsoever.
I remember when I preacher from my former church started the "white ribbon campaign against pornography." What did he accomplish? Aside from incensing individuals who accomplished nothing but discrimination by constantly picketing the local Adult Book Store, he accomplished having his name and picture in the paper talking about the importance of his white ribbon campaign. It was advertisement of his but more so of himself. He spun this into making himself more important and petitioning for a position at a more financially affluent church in a nearby town.
That same preacher openly blanched and retreated from helping a troubled youth in his own parish who actually had a real crisis -- one of disillusion. Did his ribbon campaign grant any real substance to his claims of leadership and concern for the community? Or was he a hypocrite?
That early experience gave me my own predisposition of dismissing ribbon campaigns.
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I remember when I preacher from my former church started the "white ribbon campaign against pornography." What did he accomplish? Aside from incensing individuals who accomplished nothing but discrimination by constantly picketing the local Adult Book Store, he accomplished having his name and picture in the paper talking about the importance of his white ribbon campaign. It was advertisement of his but more so of himself. He spun this into making himself more important and petitioning for a position at a more financially affluent church in a nearby town.
That same preacher openly blanched and retreated from helping a troubled youth in his own parish who actually had a real crisis -- one of disillusion. Did his ribbon campaign grant any real substance to his claims of leadership and concern for the community? Or was he a hypocrite?
That early experience gave me my own predisposition of dismissing ribbon campaigns.
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