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PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE S.U.V.’s sat on the altar of Greater Grace Temple, a Pentecostal church in Detroit, as congregants prayed to save the auto industry
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Displaced object of worship, surely, but in truth these people's lives depend on an auto industry that has jobs for them. I hear upset talk about unions -- whose power for the benefit of the worker may have priced them out of their jobs; and about 'import cars' that are actually made in the US (in non-union shops). Americans must come down from their Hummer/SUV/high octane high and open up to real possibilities for how we can get from here to there without destroying our planet and wild places and oceans.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, I agree about people's lives being ruined by what's going on in Detroit--and has been for decades. But (as writer, always looking for metaphor, I guess), SUV "worship" is partly what got us in this mess in the first place, and like Palin's natural gas pipeline prayer, it's bringing God in where I think "man" needs to be accountable!
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