When Christians were Kings...
War is harmful to people and other creatures!Not the Congress, the louder voices drown reason.
I see a group
of children at play. They are all between three and six years of
age. They are givien a few toys that they must share ... watch what
happenes. At first they will each pick a toy and call it their
own. Then another child will want that toy. The child may just
grab the toy or a battle of tugging and screaming may ensue. After
a few more minutes of this, as long as no one intervenes, the
children will find a way for all of them to enjoy one or two toys
together. A game, although rudamentary, will begin to form. Cooperation.
I have heard that nations should let their leaders fight for the rights or beliefs of their own. A fair fight with international rules could solve territory entanglments, religous disagreements or product and goods inport/export disputes. (UN agreements?) Whether a delegate is choosen by the people, appointed by a committee or born into that position, he must determine the strengths and weaknesses of his people.
How fortunate are we that our leader
is surrounded by intellegent people. However, it is all advertizement.
The government wants us to feel the way we do. Are we so easily manipulated?
Patriotism. A word that is displayed more privately and more publically
than any other thought. The idea that we can love our country
and yet critisize it's very existance has stumpted other nations
(non republic, of course) and led to a direct clash of cultures.
Simplified, of course, but the fact that during this conflict
neither side has the slightest idea of the other's reasoning. America is engaged in a war that
will truly test the beliefs of many. I know I am not alone in
feeling that somehow this all could have been avoided. Many good
boys will be lost before it is over, and a nation will cry over
the senslessness of it all. Like all wars, and they're all
the same...this one will be told to be based on economics, ownership
and/or civil rights. It will be denied again and again that religion
is a part of the push to battle. But don't be decieved. As a predominantly
Christian nation, anger aimed at the US is for this reason, and
this reason alone. Anger aimed at the US is because there will
always be differences and those who will demand that their way
is right. My question is...how many more
lives will be taken because of a religious cause? How dare President
Bush claim that we are all united under 'GOD', and go to war for
it's purpose, when in fact not everyone is a follower? The Christians say they are being held back, told they can not speak out for their beliefs. They are the ones who initiated the prejudice, started the sign carrying, prejudice against any other religion or belief that opposes Christianity. This is a ploy to give them more power to try and run over, dominate the other beliefs. They will try and use the cry of prejudice to their advantage, turning around, using the words that have been heard so long as the anti-cry of the oppressed. We will not be discriminated against. What happens when the majority, even ill designed, makes this cry? They will further stamp down the minorities cry for their freedom and ability to speak out? The �other� faiths will be further silenced by the Christian cry for their rights being seen as the dominant voice. Pagans, Wiccans, witches, those who follow the Craft...somehow we have to make our voices heard. We don't want to see our children killed...commiting
spiritual suicide, lost to the commercial belief that 'God' is right
and 'God' is might. How many more lives do we have to see marching
off to battle? Isn't one century's worth enough? Patriotism is just a step away
from fanaticism. Open conflict, terrorism and active hostility
in the name of one cause or another is carrying on in the same
tradition as the 'enemy'. Two peoples facing each other with hatred
for what one another stands for is intolerance at a global level. Thought: A presidency going sour....a
dumpy and slightly daft leader... what better way to pull him
up to the level of greatness then to thrust his country into a
war? The economy is stagnant at best, failing in reality. Can it be revived with war? This is an old belief, an myth that just perpetuates itself. Will we never learn from history?
How better to capture the strength of
other nations, conquer and divide the spoils, then watch smaller
nations desolve into one... shall we call it all in the name of
peace and freedom? Or greed and stupidity? Peace is tolerance, the ability
to live together dispite differences. Pagans have lived this
way for centuries, dispite the wars waged around them and against them. Now it's
another religious battle...carried out by the highest level of
political power, a WORLD comming apart once again, dispite a call
for PEACE.
The scariest newspaper headline I have read in a very long time was January 9, 2003...'North Korean officials said the country does not plan to rejoin the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty'..'35 thousand more troops ordered to the Gulf'...The stupid war of man is almost upon us. I'd rather spend my time in a theatre watching The Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers...for the third time. Reality is a dark, dirty and sneaky place.
And totally stress inducing.
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