Peace Is for Girlie Men
Elizabeth McAlister, wife of the late, great peace activist Philip Berrigan, made this profoundly simple observation yesterday at a peace demonstration in Washington, DC:
How can we listen to what's going on in our world and not say it's dead wrong?" she said. "Thou shalt not kill" — they're all one-syllable.
The former nun was probably too polite to say so, but surely she was thinking the obvious — that one-syllable words should be simple enough even for George Bush to understand.
Comments
Berrigan and McAlister. Those are names I haven't heard in a long time.
The religious right could learn a lesson from McAlister too.
Posted by: Kathy | September 28, 2006 11:32 AM
...that one-syllable words should be simple enough even for George Bush to understand.
Oh...I think that we're not giving George enough credit here. I mean he was able to get "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" out of his pie-hole. And after yesterday's Senate vote, we can only deduce that George knew what he meant when he said it. Seems to me he's ok with poly-syllablism.
Posted by: Kvatch | September 29, 2006 08:09 PM