No Artist Could Write a Better Story

[David Casseres]

On 11/2/06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_on_re_us/unanswered_prayers
>
> there's something truly human about this
> rich

The Sermon on the Mount says, right at the beginning of the Beatitudes,

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

My father, the atheist son of a Presbyterian missionary, taught me
that "poor in spirit" in the language of the King James Bible meant
"feeble-minded."  Makes sense to me, and actually it's a beautiful
sentiment.  One of the few parts of the Bible that I really like.

But it's a sentiment that cuts both ways.  The story of the unread
letters tells of the spiritual poverty -- to the point of
feeble-mindedness -- of today's popular Christianity.

One thinks of the sewer rats in V.