Song: Jesus loves the little children

For those who hear what you want to hear (e.g., selective hearing), the song name is "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp", not "Trump, Trump, Trump"!

Do not be a prisoner or captive of your own mind.

Rethink your expectations to remove that beam from your eye.

The beam in Matthew 7 appears to represent an unrealistic "expectation".

More: Matthew 7:3-5 Beams and motes: the devil is in the details

This could be related to "Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life here".

The exact phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" never appeared in Star Trek.
The part on intelligent life was added later and never appeared in Star Trek.

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, [kjv]

… αιχμαλωτοις … [gnt]

Matthew 25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. [kjv]

… φυλακη … [gnt]

Visiting those in an actual prison can be a good thing to do, but does not appear to be what the verses are saying.

The context and words used in the Greek appear to refer to those who are captive by their minds or expectations, and those who keep them in bondage using similar methods.

Luke 4:18

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KJV: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Greek: πνευμα κυριου επ εμε ου ενεκεν εινεκεν εχρισεν με ευαγγελιζεσθαι ευαγγελισασθαι πτωχοις απεσταλκεν με ιασασθαι τους συντετριμμενους την καρδιαν κηρυξαι αιχμαλωτοις αφεσιν και τυφλοις αναβλεψιν αποστειλαι τεθραυσμενους εν αφεσει

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KJV: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Greek: ξενος ημην και ου συνηγαγετε με γυμνος και ου περιεβαλετε με ασθενης και εν φυλακη και ουκ επεσκεψασθε με

The song "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" is written from the prisoner's point of view - hope is coming.

Why were there so many prisoners (of war) waiting in 1864 during the American Civil War?

Longfellow wrote the words to "I heard the bells" on Christmas day, 1864, having witnessed firsthand the pain and suffering of the wounded soldiers in his New England home town.

Longfellow, as with most people at the time, were unaware of the strategic decisions made by General Grant and President Abraham Lincoln.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
and wild and sweet The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;
There is no peace on earth, I said;
For hate is strong, And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail, The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men.

In an interesting way, the prisoners were there because of (perhaps unrealistic) expectations of the government at the time.

One might contrast this with the way the United States government (and military) treated captured prisoners who were released from prisoner of war camps at the end of World War II. Let us get back to "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!", the "Prisoner's Hope".

Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! The boys are marching,
Cheer up comrades they will come,
And beneath the starry flag we shall breathe the air again,
Of the free land in our own beloved home.

George Frederick Root (1820-1895) would later use the tune that he wrote for the American Civil War song "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" for another song. His pseudo-name was "Wurzel", German for "root" (his last name).

By the age of 13, he could play a tune on 13 instruments (and was proud of that fact).

Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world;
Red and yellow, black and white,
They are precious in his sight,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

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Two ways of looking at colors: (Note: there are other useful color models)

RGB additive model (light, added to black/screen)

(black) + red + green + blue = white

CMYK subtractive model (pigments, print, subtracted from white/paper)

(white) - cyan - magenta - yellow = black

Each model is correct. In many cases, one way may be easier to work with or use than the other model.

More: Colors and color models

Skin colors are mentioned in the song.
Try getting skin colors out of green, blue, magenta or cyan.

Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world;
Red and yellow, black and white,
They are precious in his sight, ...
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

Whenever I taught statistics, I used "purple people" and "green people" to avoid preconceptions or prejudices about certain colors of skin (e.g., in jury pool discrimination, etc.)

I had thought that color "orange" was still available. Someone from Syracuse University enlightened me.

They used to be called tho "Orangemen" but that was shortened to "Orange"

If one attempts to precisely define "race" in defining "racism", one is led to the mathematical idea of an equivalence relation that leads to the following conclusions. There are only two possibilities.

Everyone is of the same race, as on "one blood".
Each and every person is of a distinct race as a "unique individual".

There is no middle ground. Any such discussion is not logical nor based in factual reality, but is of the nature of opinion reality.

More: Equivalence relations: race

Do you know people with red hair? Is it really red? It appears more like "orange". Why then is it called red?
The color orange is from the 1500's, coming from the old French word "pomme d'orenge'" ≈ "orange" as a fruit. Before that time, red and orange tended to be grouped together into what was a generic red.

Did you "read" it somewhere? That is, as in "I read that somewhere.". Or the old joke, "What is red and white and read all over" where it is more ambiguous if said rather than written and "read".

Technically, red hair is associated with the gene MC1R which is recessive so that "red hair" happens in about 2 percent of the population.

More: Orange you going to color it red

The song "Jesus loves the little children" is by Clare Woolton (1856-1927), a Baptist minister who lived in New Jersey and Philadelphia. The tune is by George Frederick Root (1820-1895) that was used for the American Civil War song "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" or "Prisoner's hope". His pseudo-name was "Wurzel", German for "root" (his last name). Music: Jesus loves the little children

Note: The text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1976 (in part due to what are called the "Mickey Mouse" copyright laws) even though the words date from many years earlier.

The English word "suffer" means to "allow". The woman's suffrage movement was to "allow" women to vote, etc. This is one of the themes in the Disney movie Mary Poppins, released in August 1964 and set in 1910 England.

The Greek for "suffer" has to do with "letting go" as in "forgiving".

Matthew 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. [kjv]

… αφετε τα παιδια … [gnt]

This is the same Greek word for "forgive" as in "forget" or "let go".

The Eastern Roman Empire at Constantinople lasted another thousand years..

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KJV: But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Greek: ο δε ιησους ειπεν αφετε τα παιδια και μη κωλυετε αυτα ελθειν προς με των γαρ τοιουτων εστιν η βασιλεια των ουρανων

Latin: Iesus vero ait eis sinite parvulos et nolite eos prohibere ad me venire talium est enim regnum caelorum

Wessex: Ða cwaeð se haelend. laeteð þa litlingas. & nelle ge hyo for-beodan cuman to me. swilcre ys heofena rice.

Wycliffe: And the disciplis blamyden hem. But Jhesus seide to hem, Suffre ye that litle children come to me, and nyle ye forbede hem; for of siche is the kyngdom of heuenes.

Tyndale: But Iesus sayde: suffre the chyldren and forbid them not to come to me: for of suche is the kyngdome of heven.

Luther: Aber Jesus sprach: Lasset die Kindlein und wehret ihnen nicht, zu mir zu kommen; denn solcher ist das Himmelreich.

Spanish: Pero Jesús dijo: Dejad a los niños venir a mí, y no se los impidáis, porque de los tales es el reino de los cielos.

Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world;
Red and yellow, black and white,
They are precious in his sight,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

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