It's Sunday morning. In churches throughout the USA messages from the pulpit are likely to include compassion for fellow humans, especially the less fortunate among us. Congregants will listen in silent reverence. When the benediction's done, some parishioners will gather in the parking lot, talking about "welfare cheats" or "the gays" and "what a shame our country can't get back to the way it was." And they probably won't notice the irony.
The very short "sermon" resonating with me today is from Willie Nelson, who incidentally, is about to do yet another Farm Aid concert. He practices what he preaches; no doubt he'd be stunned at being referred to as a "preacher. "
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