If they keep saying things...

[pat]

I may just wind up permanently speechless.

"There are some things the president can do; there are some things the government can do," Smith told about 300 worshippers during a rollicking two-hour service. "But God can do all things. I want you to know he's never late. He's always on time."

Rice later echoed the call for patience.

"The Lord is going to come on time — if we just wait," she said.


Dr. Rice, and Rev. Smith for that matter, should be assigned remedial reading: MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," in which he discusses "the myth of time."

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Real Live Preacher is spending church time packing stuff to send south, and discussing his church's immediate response to immediate problems.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they've read it, and totaly missed the point, or figures that is somehow didn't apply to them or now. Especialy Dr. Rice, who's convinvced there's no racial or class issues involved in the response to the hurricane.

I'd like to see her tell this to the recent evacuees, and then have to listen to what they think about it.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Being not-so-up-to-date on recentish US history, where might a body find a copy of MLK's letter?

PS: your right-hand "tags" column overlaps the comment text box on my browser (firefox on MacOX 10.4), so I couldn't see half what I was typing until I went into preview mode.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Here. ()

The relevant passage is this:

"Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely rational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will."