EASTER SERMON: KANSAS CITY

I am a recently retired pastor, but

if I were preaching this Easter Sunday

I would take as my text the grievous murders

in Kansas City, and I would call to account

anyone—including anyone in this room today—

who hates Jews and anyone

who hates Barack Obama and anyone

who hates George W. Bush and anyone

who hates Republicans and anyone

who hates Democrats and anyone

who who hates the ludicrous Tea Party and

anyone who hates Muslims and anyone

who hates communists and anyone who

hates his ex-wife and anyone

who hates the Catholics and the

Methodists that the stupid Jew-hater

accidentally killed and anyone

who hates

who hates who

hates who

hates

And even though

I’m a cold-blooded Norwegian-

Lutheran maybe by now I’d

be in tears and suggest that

since the hate-killing of

the Jew Jesus

all we have is

love

It’s all we have.

Love.

But I don’t know if I’d have the courage

to pronounce the crucified Jew’s benediction:
Father forgive

them

for they

know not

what they do