On the day following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., a deeply saddened white man opened his copy of The Christian Science Monitor. In its leading editorial the cause of that tragedy was spelled out for all readers. It had this man sitting bolt upright, for, like thousands of others, he had begun to speculate that either a conspiracy or the twisted emotions of a single fanatic had struck Dr. King down.
The editorial offered quite a different explanation. Mass hatred was responsible, he read.
What startled him was the sudden realization that mass hatred includes any thought that is less than loving, any negative opinion that may trespass upon an individual's consciousness, while God is forgotten as the source of all right thinking.
