Our Hands Bloody

All of us complicit
all who claim his name
when others claim his name
and fail to follow his example

Christ showed us
God’s mercy, his love
going to the cross
that we may live

Nothing of hate
forgiveness the watchword
even on the cross
begging for our forgiveness

Our hands bloody
when those who claim his name
divide, hate, kill
in the name of Christ

Nothing could be farther
from the path of Christ
nothing more dividing
than claiming the will of God


July 25, 2011
Christian Terrorism is as bad a Muslim Terrorism
“A Spade Is a Spade: A Western Terrorist Is No Different Than a Muslim One”
Posted by Ishaan Tharoor
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/07/25/a-spade-is-a-spade-a-western-terrorist-is-no-different-from-a-muslim-one/
&
Selected Shorts on NPR,
http://www.selectedshorts.org/
heard May 1, 2011
including The Death of Hector
from Homer’s The Iliad
http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=client_ymp&p=NPR_135893937.mp3%20
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/shorts/2011/may/01/
&
Death of Osama bin Laden
May 1, 2011
and remembering the al Qaeda terrorism of
September 11, 2011
&
sermon, “We Lawyers Are Good For Something”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/05/sermon-we-lawyers-are-good-for.html
based on Luke 10:25-37
by Raymond A. Foss, Esq.
July 15, 2007
Wesley United Methodist Church, Concord, NH
(with bulletin inserts of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda terrorists)

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