Infidel ity

Posted by Steve Smith on May 04, 2011; 11:46pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/off-topic-but-still-tp6327815p6332744.html

Shawn -

Interesting find...  has anyone done some analysis via Google's caches to see if this was the earliest recorded reference?   Seems like there might be some parallel to the OED process for origins of words, terms, phrases?   Do we know the frequency (i'm sure it is adaptive) of Google's robots?

Unfortunately, I didn't have to read very far to find:

I understand the only thing different between Osama and me —is that I have received Christ as my Savior.

Which I find a very disturbing statement.  This kind of exclusivity seems to me to be the source of huge and continued divisiveness in the world.

- Steve

Apparently the quote is an appended version of a passage that appeared in MLK's book _Strength to Love_:

http://books.google.com/books?id=errxX4tzSMcC&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false


How it joined the first sentence is not clear.  A facebook post has been credited:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/anatomy-of-a-fake-quotation/238257/

But I prefer to think that the amalgam originated here:

http://christianhomekeeper.org/blog/i-will-not-rejoice/


Best,
Shawn

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:01 AM, siddharth <[hidden email]> wrote:

apparently this isn't even by MLK in the first place.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/out-of-osamas-death-a-fake-quotation-is-born/238220/

!!!

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars."

 

~ Martin Luther King

 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

http://www.cusf.org

 

 

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