Hmm... bikers are known for being nomads and travelers, often without kids, or not taking of them. While Christians tend to be more family and local community oriented. Often having jobs and children and not able to just gather en masse. Also, wasn't the biker thing... well, aimed at bikers, and for bikers? Why would most Christians know about it, or be invited? I think that may have something to do with it.
I don't really understand why you would expect one culture to create something, and then wonder why a different culture did show up too./QUOTE]
Well, let's see. My Pastor is a biker. My Assistant Pastor is a biker. My wife is a biker. One of my sons is a biker. One of my christian brothers who has a ministry that repairs homes for the poor is a biker. My chiropractor is a biker. Another biker brother has a ministry that feeds the homeless. This one ministry I work for occasionally - has several bikers who donate their time to obtain furniture for the poor. Practically EVERY biker I know has a wife / family / job.
When I informed any of these about the proposed ~muslim march~ they were aghast.
See, what you failed to list amongst your descriptors is that a majority of bikers are veterans. People that were in life and death conflict with muslims in the middle east during their service in the military. For muslims to even select 9/11 as date for a ~march~ offended the sensibilities of my CHRISTIAN biker brothers who fought in the middle east tremendously! For christians to not be offended by this ~march~ literally astounds me. Some (christians) were apparantly, as they showed up to counter this activity.
If this is not understandable to any, there is nothing I can say to make it so.
And, to characterize bikers as nomadic, that they abandon their children, are unemployed, unmarried, & societally aloof is an assumption on your part and you know what they say when one ~assumes~ anything.
