"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
"I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"
A COMMUNION FROM ANOTHER MUMBAI SPEAKER
The communion message at church on this Friday November 26, 2008 in Kuwait was also given by a man who has sisters-in-law still living in Mumbai.
The speaker began by noting that Galatians 3:13-14 actually talks about hostages.
The speaker, named Mohan, noted, "Christ redeemed us from that self-defeating, cursed life by absorbing it completely into himself."
Mohan explained that being redeemed was like having a third party pay a ransom or a price for us. In Greek, this meeting of a hostage takers price was one of the root meanings of the word to be "redeemed".
As at this very moment in history Mumbai residents were still being held-hostage in Mumbai the interpretation was poignant.
Mumbai residents and concerned peoples around the globe were awaiting Indian commandos to free the hostages-probably violently--whereas, Jesus purportedly intervened as a third party in our lives by his non-violent non-resistance on a Friday centuries ago.
According to Thoreau in the 19th Century, "Noncooperation of Evil is as important as cooperation with the Good is a good."
However, "love can be revolutionary" as Martin Luther King, Jr. later said
MURMURRINGS ABOUT MUJAHIDAN!?
Mujahidin of some sort, i.e. like those who had led invasions against the Soviet Rule in Afghanistan during the 1980s from Pakistan, were being blamed by many in India immediately for the attacks and murders in Mumbai this past week-even though specific large Hindu temples appeared not to have been targets at all this week.
As I heard the charges against Pakistan and Islamic groups, I thought immediately about the facts (a) that such rumors might be true and recalled (b) that back in April 1995 many Americans-including its media-had blamed Islamic radicals for the Oklahoma City bombing.
I also recognized how peoples of minority faith have often been blamed for all kinds of horrible events in recent centuries in India -and elsewhere. I mean: Jews in Europe, Christians in Asia, and Muslims in the USA .
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