Heschel

Some words of Heschel that really got to me in the interviews that we listened to this week was when he said that he is always surprised when he sees violence.  I started to think about this and I really think he's on to something.  We've talked about in class before how we have become so ignorant to violence and see it as something that is necessary or not bad.  It's obvious in video games, TV, at school, and at home and we don't look at it as something totally messed up.  We should definitely start looking at violence as something that is incredibly terrible, no matter at what level.  The next thing that they talked about was his openness to everyone's other religious views even though he was such a hardcore Jew.  This reminded me a whole lot of the convo we went to for Understanding the Bible, because the Rabbi that talked had a similar view that every religion should be accepted and unite as one under God.  I feel like it would be super hard to accept other religions if you're so passionate about your own, but he somehow does it.  After hearing some of these people talk about Heschel and reading The Prophets, I'm pretty sure that I believe that Abraham Heschel is a prophet of his own.  Some of the ways he describes prophets in his book makes me look at people like himself and MLK as modern day prophets for the way they despise violence and evil and simply are never content in their pursuit for justice.