Apologies for not coming up with a better title. I think I've found my new church and I think I love the pastor. Or I hate him. I don't know. I have a complex relationship with puns, word plays, and funny/offensive oversimplifications of ethnic groups. At today's service, the pastor ended with Joseph Lowery's now famous benediction-
Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right-
Then added a few lines of his own-
- when Hamas will say no mas, when Israel will be real, when the US will use less, and every tongue confess, every knee bow down... (I forget the rest; I was trying not to snicker)
that all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.
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