Here we go – again! Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway found a way to peacefully come to terms with pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus and now he’s being berated for it. And now he’s getting called before Congress with members who support an ex-President who thought Nazi marchers in Charlottesville were “fine people.” What hypocrites!
Hypocrisy has got to be a hallmark of these hearings. The Representatives who are trying to trap school administrators and berate college presidents are died in the wool hypocrites. When Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) asked those so-called concerned members to condemn the march, they were silent.
Opposing the horrific bombing by Israeli forces under Netanyahu is not anti-Semitism, and those members who call it so are merely deflecting their own motives. Neither is opposing the Israeli right wing that wants to destroy anything Palestinian. Rather than condemning Holloway, we should praise him for working out a solution without violence.
Prayer for the Day
Sometimes we feel like lost sheep, wandering about,
And looking for easy answers to difficult questions;
Struggling with conflict and anger around us,
We often do not see reality for what it is.
Open our eyes to injustice that hides behind duplicity,
And help us recognize truth when it stares us in the face.
In the name of the One who cried against the hypocrites,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
Oscar Wile, from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1854-1900)
Hypocrisy is generally not a social sin but a virtue.
Judith Martin, writer
The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others, but they themselves are unwilling to life a finger to move them.
Jesus, in Matthew 23: 2-4
Here we go – again! Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway found a way to peacefully come to terms with pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus and now he’s being berated for it. And now he’s getting called before Congress with members who support an ex-President who thought Nazi marchers in Charlottesville were “fine people.” What hypocrites!
Hypocrisy has got to be a hallmark of these hearings. The Representatives who are trying to trap school administrators and berate college presidents are died in the wool hypocrites. When Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) asked those so-called concerned members to condemn the march, they were silent.
Opposing the horrific bombing by Israeli forces under Netanyahu is not anti-Semitism, and those members who call it so are merely deflecting their own motives. Neither is opposing the Israeli right wing that wants to destroy anything Palestinian. Rather than condemning Holloway, we should praise him for working out a solution without violence.
Prayer for the Day
Sometimes we feel like lost sheep, wandering about,
And looking for easy answers to difficult questions;
Struggling with conflict and anger around us,
We often do not see reality for what it is.
Open our eyes to injustice that hides behind duplicity,
And help us recognize truth when it stares us in the face.
In the name of the One who cried against the hypocrites,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
Oscar Wile, from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1854-1900)
Hypocrisy is generally not a social sin but a virtue.
Judith Martin, writer
The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others, but they themselves are unwilling to life a finger to move them.
Jesus, in Matthew 23: 2-4
Here we go – again! Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway found a way to peacefully come to terms with pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus and now he’s being berated for it. And now he’s getting called before Congress with members who support an ex-President who thought Nazi marchers in Charlottesville were “fine people.” What hypocrites!
Hypocrisy has got to be a hallmark of these hearings. The Representatives who are trying to trap school administrators and berate college presidents are died in the wool hypocrites. When Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) asked those so-called concerned members to condemn the march, they were silent.
Opposing the horrific bombing by Israeli forces under Netanyahu is not anti-Semitism, and those members who call it so are merely deflecting their own motives. Neither is opposing the Israeli right wing that wants to destroy anything Palestinian. Rather than condemning Holloway, we should praise him for working out a solution without violence.
Prayer for the Day
Sometimes we feel like lost sheep, wandering about,
And looking for easy answers to difficult questions;
Struggling with conflict and anger around us,
We often do not see reality for what it is.
Open our eyes to injustice that hides behind duplicity,
And help us recognize truth when it stares us in the face.
In the name of the One who cried against the hypocrites,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
Oscar Wile, from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1854-1900)
Hypocrisy is generally not a social sin but a virtue.
Judith Martin, writer
The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others, but they themselves are unwilling to life a finger to move them.
Jesus, in Matthew 23: 2-4