Sadly proving themselves for time and immemorial the ecclesiastical actors depicted in Jesus' timeless parable of the Good Samaritan, as so aptly and exquisitely characterized in the chapter on the selfsame - 'On being a good neighbour' - in the wonderful little tome of sermonettes entitled Strength to Love, by the man whose birthday is today being celebrated as a public holiday across the length and breadth of the United States of America...
Dr Martin Luther King, Junior - one of the very few 20th-Century prophets our globe has had the immense benefit to have briefly witnessed...
...and whose own very life, moreover, like that of his beloved Master, the Lord Jesus Christ, was so 'snuffed out' at the hands of (a) murderous assassin/s...
...because he, unlike so many religionists of our supposedly sophisticated day and age, was actually willing and prepared to incarnate the truths he so fearlessly advocated, and even to die for them if need be.
Yes, for the vast majority, practising what one preaches has never been more than a spectator sport...
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