Isaiah to the Thugs
Thus says the LORD:
Share your bread with the hungry,shelter the oppressed and the homeless;
clothe the naked when you see them,
and do not turn your back on your own.
and do not turn your back on your own.
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and your wound shall quickly be healed;
and your wound shall quickly be healed;
your vindication shall go before you,
and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer,
you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!
you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!
If you remove from your midst
oppression, false accusation and malicious speech;
oppression, false accusation and malicious speech;
if you bestow your bread on the hungry
and satisfy the afflicted;
and satisfy the afflicted;
then light shall rise for you in the darkness,
and the gloom shall become for you like midday.
and the gloom shall become for you like midday.
Who do you think that you are, Dr. Seuss? For the record, I thrill at deleting your comments in moderation. Every single one of them.
ReplyDeleteBut you can’t deal with Isaiah. Instead, you deflect like a prepubescent boy. You can’t even read and understand what you worship
DeleteBut at least you recognize that “thug” means you. I count that as the littlest bit of moral progress by you in listening to your strangled conscience gasp.
And now you need to pick up on your Will to lie. You always say you never read what I write. But here you are, a few posts down from the most recent.
DeleteBecause you strangled conscience is bothering about you about Isaiah’s text: it opposes your 16th century lawyer’s adamantine obsession to deny our god-given capacity to cooperate, even co-participate with god.
I actually thought you were the thug. And your complaints about the 16th century are hilarious, given your own total disregard for the historical context of the biblical narrative.
DeleteBoth claims which you are at a loss to explain. Dodge, deflect, divert, disassemble, prevaricate, lie, double down on the lie, just make up your own whimsical truth.
DeleteThe escalating strategies of brutalizing Whiteness when confronted. By your own conscience.
I addressed Thugs. You came. I’m citing Isaiah. From his own context of addressing socio-political thuggery. The Thugs he faced also claimed God as on their side.