Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Who should cast the first stone?

(Jesus) said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone…” John 8:7 (NRSV)

  • Speaking on his radio show Monday, Glenn Beck said that the earthquake could be a "message being sent" by God… And that is, 'Hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.' I'm just saying."

  • Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of Aflac's beloved duck tweeted on Monday: "I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, 'There'll be another one floating by any minute now.'”

  • WNBA player Cappie Pondexter also tweeted her comments: "What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in their own country!... "u just never know! They did pearl harbor so u can't expect anything less."


  • During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only active deployments of nuclear weapons in war to date.

    Who should cast the first stone? Why do we continue to play the blame game? Where is the American spirit of compassion?