History Forum / General / General Topics / January 2005

A high school kid joins the army and is trained for war.  The child finds
his or her self in a helicopter or sitting on a sandbag while a rocket or
bullet finds him or her.  The soldier then wonders why.

The child may remember his or her family, and he or she may think of God or
what someone says is God.  But, anyway, the child dies, maybe shrieking,
maybe not.  Then we ask why.

Why is that we wish to think of ourselves as better than our neighbors,
while we don't quiet convince ourselves that we are.  So we look for ways to
find something wrong with others.

We try to demean the color of others' skin or the shape of their eyes.
When that doesn't make us feel better, we buy a car or clothes that we think
better, or kill the neighbors.

Bigotry, nationalism and racism and sexism, all begin there and keep ending
in partisanship.  That's where we keep killing our children.

The best or worst of us call bigotry religion, but few of us say God is bad,
or even terrible.  Figure it out, for your children.

Figure it out, in your notion of reason, before you terrorize more children.

Learn that Jesus didn't die for you to crucify your kids.

He died to show you how to share.

Iraqis want to vote,

not to own a fancier car,

to stop the shrieking.

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