” title=”CNN’s painfully uninformative recap”>CNN’s painfully uninformative recap:
“If we’re going to have fewer bombs and more ice cream, we need to shift our budget to what helps people live instead of killing people,” Cohen said.
That article does little to explain the connection between Cohen and Claiborne, other than how they hooked up. This post from Claiborne at the ” title=”Christian Post”>Christian Post does a bit better:
“It’s about how we can be human beings and how our spirituality is tied up in taking care of people instead of killing people,” Cohen told The Christian Post. “I think the key to actually changing the direction of our country is for people that don’t normally work together to start working together and that’s what we are doing.”
Cohen, who is an activist as well, normally gives talks from a secular perspective. Claiborne, meanwhile, represents a faith perspective. But they hope supporters from both belief systems will come together for a common interest just as they have.
“I’ve been working on the issue of national budget priorities and shifting money out of Pentagon spending and into human needs. Shane had been working on the same idea from a spiritual perspective and working on stopping violence locally in Philadelphia,” Cohen said. “I come at it from a secular, rational perspective and he comes at it from a spiritual perspective.”
The fact that Cohen is Jewish and Claiborne is Christians reminds me of ” title=”porn debate tour”>porn debate tour. The difference, of course, is that neither of them are advocating more bombs.
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