He must now lift that curse, fast.
You don't mean that curse".
And on celebrity, that curse, or perhaps blessing, of our contemporary culture, he is level-headed.
Jesus Christ taught tolerance and love, saying, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you…" (Matthew 5 44).
How we beg them to feast freely on the pigeons and starlings that curse us by nesting on our skyscrapers and bridges.
But both can be eluded for eight American cents, the cost of a canoe ride.The people who live round here prefer their borders porous; it makes it easier to flee the civil wars that curse this neck of West Africa.
In the book of Genesis, often cited by evangelicals as the basis for their loyalty to Israel, God promises to bless the nations that bless the Jews, and curse the nations that curse the Jews.
Whatever post-traumatic disorders have been buried in the collective unconscious over 18 years, on the surface, life is orderly, pavements are clean and roads are free from the potholes that curse much of Africa.
It is also what Jesus demands of us elsewhere in his teaching, in the Sermon on the Mount, when he says, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you or persecute you".
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