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"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who murder your prophets, and persecute those whom God has sent as messengers to you.
How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings. But you would not let me.
As you have willed, your house is now yours— but is made desolate.’”
We persecute our heroes and murder our prophets, to still the voice of conscience. So that in our arrogance, we can have our way.
And in our overwhelming hypocrisy, we may give them a parade, and a day. Martin Luther King gave this speech on 3 April 1968 at the Church of God in Christ, in Memphis, Tennessee. On 4 April 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered by a 'lone gunman.'
This is my 6400th posting since February, 2007
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