Religious Violence, Hate Crimes, and Contemplation
About ten miles or so from Thomas Merton Square in Louisville, KY — the street corner where Merton had his famous “Fourth and Walnut” epiphany in 1958 — is a Hindu house of worship, Swaminarayan Temple. Earlier this week, the temple was vandalized.
The crime was described this way in the Louisville Courier Journal:
Sometime between Sunday evening and Tues…
