Reply #10: I hesitated to post the last paragraph...there is so much anger in it. [View All]

[madfloridian]

But it is a truly righteous anger, and it deserves to be read and posted.

The Methodists of Dallas can be fairly sure that none of them will be snatched off the streets, flown to Guantanamo Bay, stripped naked, forced to stand for 48 hours in a freezing room with deafening noise. So why should they worry? It's only the Jews who are in danger, and the homosexuals and gypsies. The Christians are doing fine. If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

He could have substituted many religious institutions and other groups in place of the church, and it would be the same right now.

Some of the comments after Keillor's column are amazing. Heartfelt.