Every so often it is necessary to turn off the noise, step back, take a long breather, and put all things in proper perspective. If El Donaldo has done anything of value since his inauguration it is that he has shown the rest of the world, and some in America, what a red, white, and blue jackass looks like. For this I thank him, tenfold times over. The offshoot of this, at least for now anyway, is that this weblog is dropping out. Turning to things that will provide a positive healthful physical and mental environment, one that politics, the media, and the continual left-right struggle for total power only destroys. Be well. Perhaps someday, after El Donaldo and company have disappeared from the scene, we'll return. Until then: “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” T.S. Eliot
Les,
ReplyDeleteI copied this from a blog I read. It is real words, and real comments, from a person who is a bleeding-heart liberal progressive and she is talking about terrorists.
Here is link:
http://www.jesusneedsnewpr.net/adopt-a-terroritst-says-christian-group/
And here are her comments:
"Hmmmm…. I think the best thing to do for our “enemies” is try to understand them. It seems to me that poverty leads to desperation and desperation leads to fundamentalism… where else can you turn if your world has been utterly obliterated by the “world”?
I don’t hate terrorists (even as a skeptic) because I feel that these people have suffered in ways that we spoiled Americans just can’t fully digest. As a teacher, I’ve learned to acknowledge that children living in desperate or unhappy situations will act out. How is it any different for people just because they turn 18?
I think loving other people is about being willing to listen to their stories and feel compassion for them as best as possible. That’s a really hard thing to do when we feel personally threatened by them, I know!!!
Even so, I think (even as a skeptic!!!) that perhaps Jesus offered a great solution that had been expresses in Eastern religions as well: love others as yourself.
It doesn’t mean that a person can’t be angry or self-defensive (Jesus certainly got angry from time to time), but what it does mean to me is that it is the burden/ moral obligation for every person (believer or not) is to try to understand his or her fellow human being and do the best he or she can do by that person.
Just my $0.02 as a secular humanist."
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Yeesh.
Donald in Bethel, CT
http://www.projectmathetes.wordpress.com