40 Day Dream

Original painting by Irving Norman

At the end of the forty days
and forty nights,
the LORD
gave me the two stone tablets,
the tablets of the covenant.
Then the LORD told me,
"Go down from here at once,
because your people
whom you brought out of Egypt
have become corrupt.
They have turned away quickly
from what I commanded them
and have made a cast idol for themselves."
~ Deuteronomy 9

Father Alexander Karloutsos from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese,
Rabbi Bob Kaplan from the Jewish Community Council,
Reverend Brian Jordan from the Church of St. Francis of Assisi,
Rabbi Irwin Kula from the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership-CLAL, Reverend Jim Cooper from Trinity Church,
Reverend Les Mullings from the Church of the Nazarene,
Imam Shamsi Ali from the Islamic Cultural Center of New York,
Reverend T.K. Nakagaki from the New York City Buddhist Church,
Cara Berkowitz from the UJA Federation
and
Matthew Weiner from the Interfaith Center of New York join Mayor Bloomberg on Governors Island to Capitulate to Islam

They refused to listen
and failed to remember
the miracles you performed
among them.
They became stiff-necked
and in their rebellion
appointed a leader
in order to return to their slavery...

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