{"id":4516,"date":"2019-04-27T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2019-04-27T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T21:48:08","slug":"we-shall-not-be-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/we-shall-not-be-divided\/","title":{"rendered":"We Shall Not Be Divided"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sri<\/a>
Sri Lanka folk speak at the vigil for the bombing victims in Galway<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nSri Lanka: a modern time Golgotha made
\nBy self styled Romans of the modern day
\nWho sought terror among others to give
\nJust because of how and to who they pray…
\nLet us pray for them…<\/p>\n

Let us pray for them, the victims
\nWorshipping God as they know how…
\nThere is no difference across the millennia
\nRoman times of old, and today here now…<\/p>\n

Let us pray for them, the terrorists
\nDid they know what they did do?
\nWere they deluded or just full of hate?
\nDid they believe their deeds were right and true?
\nLet us pray for them…<\/p>\n

Let us pray for the world, for us
\nThat we shall not allow this hate take root
\nChristchurch, Sri Lanka, crimes of extremists on each side
\nThey speak not for us, tat the eternal truth…
\nLet us pray for them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We shall not be divided, the Christian and the Moslem, on the deeds of extremists on both sides…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1795,4206,4207],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","tag-isis","tag-sri-lanka","tag-sri-lanka-bombings","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1aQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1701,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/our-lady-of-clonfert-bless-both-boston-and-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":4516,"position":0},"title":"Our Lady of Clonfert, Bless Both Boston and the World","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"19th April 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As Boston comes to terms with its tragedy, we pray to Mary who is venerated in both the Islamic and the Christian worlds to stop hearts hardening, and to see that the actions of a few are not the actions of all men. 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