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Chicago church leaders call for a weekend of peace
Chicago Tribune ^ | July 23, 2012 | Michelle Manchir

Posted on 07/23/2012 11:01:45 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Calling for widespread action to stop gun violence in Chicago, about 70 faith leaders from the city and nearby suburbs gathered Monday for prayer and reflection.

"We're tired of doing funerals. I feel like this tiredness has awakened us to really do something," said Pastor Paco Amador of the New Life Community Church in Little Village.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; church; violence
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A "weekend of peace" has an expiration date.
1 posted on 07/23/2012 11:01:56 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

And then things go back to the usual, death and destruction.


2 posted on 07/23/2012 11:14:05 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will NEVER get my vote.)
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“We’re tired of doing funerals. I feel like this tiredness has awakened us to really do something,”

The violence and killings in Chicago are these people’s fault. They support the corrupt politicians and street thugs who make Chicago what it is. Then they put on this phony victim act and pretend that it is not their fault things are so bad. They are nothing but Hypocrites. They make me sick.

They want to pass more gun control laws. They want to give more taxpayer money to thugs and criminals.


3 posted on 07/23/2012 11:14:42 PM PDT by detective
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To: ConservativeStatement

Good luck with all that.


4 posted on 07/23/2012 11:16:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: ConservativeStatement

It is Democrats that are causing your problems up there.


5 posted on 07/23/2012 11:21:49 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The over/under is 6.


6 posted on 07/23/2012 11:25:51 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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Why don’t they just have the Obamessiah come back and lift his arms up and make the oceans recede. Oh wait, wrong miracle. Sorry.
7 posted on 07/23/2012 11:28:57 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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I’ll take the over. Hell, 6 is one drive by!


8 posted on 07/23/2012 11:32:38 PM PDT by TsonicTsunami08
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To: ConservativeStatement

Magical thinking. Hey, pass another gun control law. The leftist morons around the nation apparently think that will help.

Pure insane stupidity...


9 posted on 07/23/2012 11:52:47 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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Many black ministers have no moral standing. They are pro-abortion and pro-Homosexual Privilege. They're too addicted to fine clothes, nice cars, good food, and the occasional strange nookie than they are to preaching the Gospel. They worship at the altar of Molechbama, instead of at the feet of Our Risen Savior.

They have their reward in full.

10 posted on 07/24/2012 12:04:24 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Obama does not have the work ethic to be Anti-Christ.)
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Gun violence in Chicago?

Impossible.

Guns are illegal in Chicago.


11 posted on 07/24/2012 12:10:24 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Romney Sucks. Mutiny Now,!)
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I think there were more people killed in Chicago over the weekend than were killed in the Aurora shooting.


12 posted on 07/24/2012 12:47:34 AM PDT by SuziQ
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Even if these clergy were all Mr. Integrity, they would find it extremely difficult to reach these lost, drifting gang bangers who live the ever-hating morals of the only families they know. It takes a church not just a preacher. (Shameless pun on it takes a village.)


13 posted on 07/24/2012 1:17:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: ConservativeStatement

How’s that working for ya?


14 posted on 07/24/2012 1:27:29 AM PDT by trailboss800
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First Mayor Dead Fish says don’t shoot the kids.
Now a gaggle of so-so preachers say leave it off for a weekend.
The gangs? They don’t even bother to laugh. They don’t notice. They are spiritual zombies.


15 posted on 07/24/2012 1:31:43 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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“Peace” in Chicago!

Bwahahahahahahahaaaa....


16 posted on 07/24/2012 1:36:59 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Exactly. Just need more taxpayer funds. They know who the bad guys are and they accept and tolerate them.


17 posted on 07/24/2012 1:39:48 AM PDT by Eagles6
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Peace will have to live in many more Chicagoans’ hearts before it will start to be seen in the city. (The same could be said of just about any large, declining US city.)


18 posted on 07/24/2012 1:41:22 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: Eagles6

The Gordian knot of subsidized moral squalor in the black community must be cut. What slavery and Jim Crow could not steal, white liberals bribed away.


19 posted on 07/24/2012 1:48:06 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: ConservativeStatement

....the most powerful nation in the world is reduced to begging criminals to stop.

It really is Obamaland. :)


20 posted on 07/24/2012 2:19:07 AM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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