Lord have mercy on us who wander like sheep without a shepherd, harassed and helpless, fleeced at every turn, bleating and blogging about the existence of God and the curse of the vuvuzela and the passion of Lindsay Lohan and the sweet Christ knows what else while children starve and are blown to pieces by bombs dropped in our name, while the skies and seas and the future itself are blighted by our waste, arrogance, and frivolity.
Wow, do I ever love that quote. It’s from an article at ReligionDispatches.org, by writer called Garret Keizer.
The article is titled Does Hitchens Have a Prayer, and it explores the notion of whether Christians ought to pray for the fiercely atheistic Christopher Hitchens, who has been stricken with cancer of the esophagus.
It’s a great article, and well worth the read… but it’s that quotation that stands out in my mind.
It says pretty much everything about everything right now.
Lord have mercy, indeed.
Amen!