This is from my good friend Sharon in Philadelphia (a Joni fan who is not
on our list but who should be). I find her words powerful and accurate:
<< The insanity of this all is in no way diminished by the
predictability of it, or something like it.
It's a terrible world we live in, not only because something like
this can occur, but more so because you can watch six year old children on
the West Bank celebrating it. I have always thought religion was
potentially the most dangerous threat facing the world, a threat to our
civil liberties here at home, and now, to our personal safety. I hope god
appreciates (or Allah, or Buddah, or whomever) how we've managed to
corrupt an ostensibly enlightening and benevolent concept to suit our own
need to feel superior--to someone who would get an abortion, to someone
who's homosexual, to a Catholic, to a Protestant, to a citizen of a more
powerful country.
Whatever happened to the Opiate of the People concept? >>
Lori
in Bethesda (may as well be accurate about location)
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