ML King

TYING UP A FEW LOOSE ENDS: Hey, I found that Shakespeare video game. It's actually been set up so you can play it online, now. Enjoy, and pick up a few Shakespearian tidbits while you're there.

Also, a tip o'the Mark's Musings cap to list member Steve W., who found that quote on science and theology I had struggled to remember (and, it turns out, gotten quite painfully wrong). It's by Robert Jastrow in his book, "God and the Astronomers." Here's the actual quote:

"For the scientist who has lived by faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."

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On this day in 1929, Martin Luther King, Junior was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

The son of a Baptist minister, he became ordained himself at the tender age of 18. Seven years later, while he was pastoring a church in Montgomery, Alabama, one of his parishioners refused to give up her seat to a white man on the local bus. The ensuing events led to Dr. King's church leading the Montgomery bus boycott and from there, he went on to national prominence as a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement.

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THE WISDOM OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

"War is a poor chisel for carving out a peaceful tomorrow."

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance."

"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control."

"We have guided missiles and misguided men."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

[selected from the collection at brainyquote.com]

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WISDOM for YOUR WEEK: "If anyone says, 'I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother." (1 John 4:20-21)

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