[ I am back working through my prison journal. It is out of order… Well, the order is as I have opened boxes. The date in the title is the date it was written. I hope this is not confusing. What you are reading is what you get for your tax dollars.
Continued from On Reading Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country (Part Three) 3-11-2013. sch 7/23/2025]
Kurt Vonnegut Jr wrote the following in his A Man Without A Country:
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, when often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
"Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me, a break!
Chapter 9
He makes a point I made for years. I can hear my Aunt Mary Ellen and my Great-Aunt Elsie making the same point in almost the same words. The Beatitudes have about the same chance of passing constitutional muster, but that is not the real question, is it? Why do Christians prefer the Ten Commandments to the Sermon on the Mount?
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[7/23/2025
Prior parts can be reached by following these links:
On Reading Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country (Part Three) 3-11-2013
On Reading Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country (Part Two) 3-11-2013
On Reading Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country (Part One) 3-11-2013
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