17 Sep 2023 1:00 pm
My first roommate in college was Jewish.jerrab » 17 Sep 2023, 12:22 pm » wrote: ↑ next he will say he danced in harlem and on indian reservations. anything to get votes.
He thought all Christians believed he was bound for hell until he met me.
Joe Biden had an extraordinarily good Christian mother to approve of him going to synagogue and later to mass.
No doubt she read him Abu Ben Adam as a child and explained it to him
—-Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold:—
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the Presence in the room he said
“What writest thou?”—The vision raised its head,
And with a look made of all sweet accord,
Answered “The names of those who love the Lord.”
“And is mine one?” said Abou. “Nay, not so,”
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerly still, and said “I pray thee, then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow men.
”The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night
It came again with a great wakening light,
And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
And lo! Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest.