I hope you're getting your steam off, because you are definitely
over the top here, young man.

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Ron Anthony wrote:
>Thomas, your are a fool.  Your philosophy is lost on people who commit acts
>such as we've witnessed.  You'll never run out of cheecks to turn, always
>hoping the enemy will see promise in your infinite will to suffer, and have
>a change of heart.  Unfortunately, you and all those who aspouse your drivel
>will be physically dead before then.  Right now it is YOU who are part of
>the problem.  All your good intentions are corrupted by your failure to
>realize reality for what it is.  THANKS FOR NOTHING SIR.  You contribute
>NOTHING.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pic microcontroller discussion list
>[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Thomas McGahee
>Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:00 AM
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: [OT]: Tragedy
>
>
>My thanks to those PIC List members that sent condolences
>to me on the occassion of the deaths of several of my
>friends in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.
>
>This morning instead of having our usual homeroom period,
>we assembled all of the students here at Don Bosco Technical
>High School (where I teach) in the gymnasium. We began
>with a reading from the Gospel of Matthew 5:38 where Jesus
>exhorts His followers:
>
>"You have learnt how it was said: 'An eye for an eye and a
>tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you: offer the wicked man no
>resistance. On the contrary, if anyone hits you on the right
>cheek, offer him the other as well. If a man takes you to
>law and would have your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.
>And if anyone orders you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
>Give to anyone who asks, and if anyone wants to borrow, do not
>turn away.
>
>"You have learnt how it was said: 'you must love your neighbor
>and hate your enemy.' But I say this to you: love your
>enemies, and pray for those who persecute you. In this way
>you will be sons of your Father in heaven, for He causes His
>sun to rise on bad men as well as good, and His rain to fall
>on honest and dishonest men alike. For if you love those who
>love you, what right have you to claim any credit? Even the
>tax collectors do as much, do they not? And if you save your
>greetings for your brothers, are you doing anything exceptional?
>Even the pagans do as much, do they not? You must therefore
>be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
>
>Tough words, and ones that I am sure many will choose to ignore,
>but the only kind of words that can ever truly bring an end
>to the cycle of violence.
>
>Fr. Thomas McGahee
>
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