A Knock at Midnight.

“The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

An Odd Fellow in the Neoconservative Right.

Joe Scarborough is the host of MSNBC’s morning Joe. He is very well known for his “redneck” conservative views. This man has done everything in his power to push some very extreme, myopic conservative ideas through his tv shows. The views are such that can only get on the nerves of liberals out there. And the more the liberals are irritated, the more Scarborough feels fulfilled.

However, there is one issue on which the hardcore Republican agrees with most Democrats. It is the issue of gun control. When it comes to the gun control debate, this is one Neoconservative who stands far apart from his compatriots in the Republican Party.



Hear Scarborough on the negative effects of gun ownership: “A man is dead and a little girl’s life is ruined. I say this as a father of an eleven year old girl. Who would put an Uzi in the hands of a nine-year-old girl? What is wrong with these people? What is wrong with this culture? What right is advanced by doing that?”

Scarborough did not stop at so many questions. He went further to say that “there's nothing in the Second Amendment that gives kids the right to fire semi-automatics.”

 

 

 

 

 

Your Attitude Goes Before Your Religion.

Some years back, I used to work with a guy who was notorious for his negative attitudes to life. This guy would curse or swear like a rogue sailor over the smallest form of irritation or annoyance. One moment, he was smiling with a colleague and the next moment, he was “stabbing” the same colleague in the back without batting an eyelid.

This guy’s attitude to work was something else. If he was not being lazy, he was complacent. And the worst aspect of it all was that the guy was as prejudiced and racist as a stray, diseased dog was known for being rabid. There was really “nothing good to write home about him”.

Then, something happened one day at work. We were all talking about our weekend, and particularly the past Sunday. It soon came to the turn of this guy. He began by saying “I was in the church…and as a Sunday school teacher…”

“What?...” almost everyone in the office exclaimed and glared at him simultaneously.

“What is what?” the guy, embarrassed, turned around to gape at us.

Suddenly, the entire room was quiet!

I was the first person to speak. “Did you just say…you were a Sunday school teacher?”

It took him a few seconds to answer but he finally did, “Yes…and so?...”

Quietly, everyone began to leave the room, one after the other.