Comments are good too — including the text of MLKing’s “A Knock at Midnight” sermon

They make a huge spectacle of their faith, and that to me is the first sign that they are not sincere. Jesus himself said that when you pray, go into a closet, and that the people who pray loudly out in the open to make spectacles of themselves are not of faith.

There is little in the Bible that anyone can honestly say they these people adhere to. They lie with imputnity, their policies are steeped in hatred for people not like them, they work against the poor, they are warmongers who celebrate war, yet are cowards who don’t do their own fighting.

If you look at everything they do, and ask the popular, what would Jesus do, it would not be any of the things that they have done. The leaders of these people — Dobson, Falwell et al, are false prophets if there ever were any, and people who are sincere in their faith need to think twice about following them.

Lastly, what is most disturbing is their cult-like worship for George Bush. They see this deeply flawed man as a walking, breathing incarnation of God’s Word, that if Bush says it, it must be of God. Such fanatacism is dangerous, in that it has been this kind of blind allegiance to evil that has been behind all of the pogroms the world has seen. I say “evil” because any policy that seeks to legitimize death, destruction and deception, and portray it as God’s Word is the essence of evil.

gotta love mahalia!

myself, i consider myself a christian still, for some reason. i was raised in the congregational church (ucc), but stopped being a churchgoer when i found that going to church was actually getting in the way of my spiritual life (long story).

so maybe i’m sort of a “lapsed congregationalist.” which seems silly–i wonder if that makes me an honorary unitarian?

anyway. i love easter. easter was always the big holiday. in our church, even christmas had a strong easter subtext.

best wishes for rebirth for all!

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A pickup truck packed with artillery shells was detonated Sunday near a hospital south of Baghdad, killing at least 15 people. The blast left a crater 10 yards wide, the Iraqi military said.

…happy easter

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Coffee and tea are ready, and today it’s a full-out breakfast buffet. Help yourselves to eggs any way you like them, French toast, English muffins, biscuits, or whatever at all strikes your fancy. It’s eggs Benedict for me!