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Revolutions, Not Country Clubs Hot

Avatar Written by Eric Kuiper     July 11, 2007     Favorites 0 Add to favorites
 

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Short Title This American Life: Kid Logic
Year Released 2007
Director Ira Glass

It should be no surprise that this kind of wisdom comes from a child.

With between 5 & 6 billion copies of the Bible floating around out there, it is hard to find anyone in America who hasn’t heard of Jesus. Even if you haven’t picked up one of those copies, you probably know how Jesus died (Mel Gibson did everything in his power to tell you.)

But do you know why people wanted to kill him?

In this brief clip from This American Life, taken from a show focused on kid logic, a four-year-old makes a connection that brings beautiful insight to this question. Only people who feel like they have something to lose stand opposed to the ideas of others.

People aren’t killed for starting country clubs; people are killed for starting revolutions.

What have you joined?


TAGS: mlk , martin luther king jr. , ira glass , this american life , jesus , christ , bible
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steve sherwood said:

steve sherwood
 one quick thing
I want to stress that I LOVE the point you made with this piece. People don't get killed for starting country clubs, they get killed for starting revolutions. To the revolution!
July 12, 2007

steve sherwood said:

steve sherwood
 powerful piece
This is a remarkably powerful radio piece, made even more so by the photos you've added, Eric. The moment where the balcony in Memphis slide and the kid's question "Did they kill him too?" come up gives me chills and welling tears every time I've seen it. Really well put together AND just amazing content on its own.

A question I've thought about every time I've seen it. Does the coupling of Jesus and King in the piece, both in terms of mission and death, move me to care more deeply about King's life and cause, Jesus' or both? Does that make sense? I'm pretty highly predisposed to view both very positively, but I find myself watching the clip and being more moved by King than Jesus. I'm guessing that is because of the way the clip plays out, with Jesus first and King's death as the climax and because I feel more fully alligned with Jesus to begin with and feel the clip as a call to therefore identify more with the causes of King and others like him.

Eric, thoughts? Others? Watching the clip for three weeks at camp I found myself wondering if it ideally works as a clip about the cross event or better for a talk looking at 'now that the cross has happened, what does that mean for me from here out.' Regardless, I love it and would want to use it!
July 12, 2007

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