go and do likewise
She's got a ticket to rihihihide
She's got a ticket to ride, but she don't care.
"Two children dead and death toll likely to rise" in shooting at a Catholic church and school in Minneapolis. The wisdom says "refraining from speaking out against evil is complicit in the evil itself," why do I seldom speak out against the evil in which our civilization is drowning?
What's the point, when half of us, actually half-plus-one I reckon, enthusiastically support and are therefore complicit?
Why is the national executive administration so involved in matters that have run along fine without bully interference for decades, and ignore the evil in our midst?
Whoever doesn't know the answer is asleep with Rip Van Winkle. The rest of us know and are either complicit or resigned to and hoping to ride it out.
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Decades, eons ago, a colleague, neighbor, childhood playmate and sometime friend criticized our rector, Fr Tom Byrne, for "mixing politics and religion."
Religion is about lovingkindness, which is about how people treat other people, specifically "neighbor," who is defined precisely in Jesus' "Parable of the Good Samaritan" -> my neighbor is the very last person I would have considered my neighbor: my hated enemy, who in my view is totally other, not at all like me.
There is a case, a report, of a Luftwaffe pilot escorting a shot up American pilot out of danger and back to safety.
36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? 37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
It isn't a load of rubbish about being nice to whoever is down and out, it's precisely about mercy, compassion, lovingkindness to those who are not like us, to those we hate and who hate us.
As Bishop Budde preached in the service of prayer for the nation. https://cathedral.org/sermons/homily-a-service-of-prayer-for-the-nation/
Imagine taking offense at a preacher who preaches about mercy, compassion.
It's not about assuring one's personal salvation into afterlife, as sure for heaven as if you were already there. It's the gospel of Jesus Christ: it's about mercy, compassion, lovingkindness for whomever you hate, or whoever hates you.
Some, evidently even half-plus-one, will never get it.
