What a profound contradiction and hypocrisy we see in those who call themselves Christians, but who support the U.S. waging war on people in Muslim countries. Christ taught us to love each other, to love our neighbors as ourselves. Among the Ten Commandments, we are told, "Thou Shall Not Kill."
So when did killing others get to be such a big part of Christianity? Wasn't it always part of the way that people actually practiced this religion? I guess I'm thinking about the Crusades, but I think it goes even further back. Of course, the Inquisition was really horrid.
My sense is that Christ's teaching got corrupted, and his basic teachings about being good people, and not killing or stealing from others, all of that, got lost in the shuffle.
So is the U.S. a Christian nation with all of the wars that it wages, and all of the violence it creates in other countries with its plans to create civil strife, the lies, the deceptions, the manipulations that we keep learning more and more about.
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth? Wasn't that supposed to be Old Testament thinking that Christ was changing. He was a revolutionary, and he was a true evolutionary as well.
But wasn't the war on terror motivated by getting revenge? The shock and awe attack on Iraq, wasn't that about terrorizing the people there, regardless of their involvement with 9/11, which was never, ever proven.
Isn't the ongoing war on terror all about revenge on terrorists, wiping them out from the face of the earth, as though using the very same tools will make anything different.
What about Afghanistan? Why is the U.S. still waging war n Afghanistan? Can anyone tell me? It would appear that it has more to do with a holy war against Muslims than any clear objective that I have failed to see elucidated.
Well, perhaps the ongoing presence of the U.S. in Afghanistan is more about the drug trade and making windfall profits for the military industry, as some have posited. But who really wants to believe that the motives are so base, for our young men and women to suffer and die there? To say nothing of ruining the lives of Afghanis and their country for no good reason.
And I have seen plenty of evidence that 9/11 was an inside job with people in our government colluding with Mossad. it would seem the Israelis still believe in the wrathful God of the Old Testament, and that Christians have forgotten that Jesus gave us a message of love instead.
No wonder I went on a quest for a different spirituality than the Catholic faith I was raised in. I needed something more than the hypocrisy imbedded in Christianity, and frankly, the failure of organized religions to get along with each other. It's really old paradigm to focus on how we are different from each other.
In the new paradigm we are much more focused on how we are part of each other, and part of the Earth as well. The new paradigm is an evolutionary leap of faith that we can do better than this, this world of war.
Each of us needs to ask ourselves not what humanity can do for us, but what we can do for humanity and future generations; not what the world can give us, but what we can give the world. This takes a paradigm shift to expand our horizons, and it takes a profoundly changed sense of ourselves, and who we really are.
Humanity faces an identity crisis. How we resolve this determines our fate.
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