"If you are a Jew or Christian in America, the seriousness of your Judaism or Christianity is now being tested.
People look
back in time and wonder how religious people, especially religious leaders --
specifically, the clergy -- could have failed in times of moral crisis. The
failure of most rabbis, priests and pastors to speak out today -- when the risk
to personal safety is so much less than it was in communist and fascist
countries -- should provide the answer: Religion doesn't have all that much
impact on most religious people. During comfortable times, it provides two
essentials to a happy and fulfilled life -- community and meaning -- but when
tested, it often fails like an umbrella that fails to expand just as it starts
to rain.
America is
being taken over by violent mobs; a vast amount of destruction and stealing has
taken place (with little police intervention and the apathy of our political
leaders). Why aren't all clergy delivering thundering sermons about the Seventh
Commandment, 'Thou shalt not steal'? Does it now come with an
asterisk?"
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