What's Come Around

'Tis the season for Cosmic Justice for Japanese whale eaters, and many, many S.F. politicos

A A A Comments By Matt Smith Wednesday, Dec 20 2000

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Which raises the troubling question: If all the theologians, ministers, rabbis, Buddhist scholars, Wicca priestesses, televangelists, and other spiritual sentries mankind has posted throughout the land were to all take a simultaneous coffee break, would the earth open up and unleash a torment of evil? Thankfully, the Rev. Karen Oliveto of Bethany United Methodist Church in Noe Valley called back the next day and assured us it wouldn't.

"I think God would take care of things just fine," she said, in just 10 words granting her profession limitless sick leave.

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(7) "Verily, an evil deed committed does not immediately bear fruit, just as milk does not curdle at once; but like a smoldering fire covered with ashes, it remains with the fool until the moment it ignites and burns him."

(8) Oh, that Muni directors' children might be sold into slavery, their crops burned, their tribal burial grounds trampled, and their chattel set free.

(9) The Uttaradhyayana Sutra is one of the four fundamental scriptures of Janaism, a system of Indian philosophy.

(10) Laws of Manu, the first great legal code of the Hindus, Chapter 4, Verse 172, as translated by George Bühler.

(11) According to Christian Scripture, 2,000 years ago a star rose above Bethlehem, the Magi came to Judea, and the messianic age began.

(12) Buddhist Dhammapada, Verse 127.

(13) "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
Composer: J. Fred Coots
Lyricist: Haven Gillespie