Robert Burns today?
You call yourself a Christian.
I call you a Hypocrite.
You call yourself a patriot.
I think you're Full of Shit!
(from "Sweet NeoCon") -The Rolling Stones
Today I started to think of children and gender. I became diverted. I often am. I find myself compelled to write about “inhumanity”. How can this be? Its Sunday.
Three centuries are spanned above, Robert Burns to Mick Jagger. The issue is older, perhaps infinite, in our being. How is it inhumanity not unhumanity? I suspect because we know, in our souls, it is in humanity.
We all feel we love. We all hope we are loved. Yet in God’s name we kill.
An urbane, well educated, artistic, likeable, Serb made clear I knew nothing of the Balkans. The solution was obvious. Kill every Muslim and Catholic man, women and child. Descent? Origin? Conviction? Such views have universality not just in the Balkans. Yet as the prophet made clear the Umah and the Universal Churches give love to, and seek the love and forgiveness of the one all powerful God.
For Christians sentiments of exclusivity go back to the split between Rome and Constantinople, for Muslims to the creation of Istanbul. The latter is a shorter period of time than the former. However before all of that the Balkans had Macedonian, Greek and Persian inhumanity.
The Prophet was driven by concern for any schism in humanity. He felt it should not be. It would not exist in a world ruled by the one all powerful God whom all had come to accept. Daily Shi’ia and Sunni kill each other in Baghdad?
This is Sunday the day of the Norse Sun where does that lie in Christianity?
Last year I conversed with a republican, ex marine corp, friend of mine in Virginia about the Stone’s point. We noted that Presidents Jacksons or Roosevelt1 could easily have similar things written of them and their beliefs. They did however stick to the American story. The constitution gives all the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness without fear or favour. Now righteous alone steps up to the plate.
Fundamentalists accept from God that they should “judge not that thee be judged” and practice “forgiveness” yet all judge and never forgive. Worse they do so in ignorance of the nature of the the universe from which created evolution produced them. Now there is a thought for creationists. They do so out of their love of God and their deep concern to save the souls of their fellow human beings. Step the Inquisition and the Conquistadores.
Good kindly people all over the USA, the Balkans and the planet hurt each other by excluding them from their concern. It seems they can then can allow them to be hurt, tortured and killed. It is clearly human to do so. What other accountability can there be but ourselves?
This is not found elsewhere in nature. Killing other species for food or playing with a prey animal to practice predatory skills this is not. Humans do this to their own species. Other species do stand off to each other over territory and procreation but they do so advisedly. They rarely fight to the death but on assessing themselves weaker back off. Humans do not. Why not?
My only observation is that humanity is the only species which can and does live everywhere on and off this planet. We are not formed by our environment but form it. The result is we have never speciated nor can afford to. Any act of exclusion by one human being of an other is a threat to the continuation of the at one ment the Prophet, Christ and others have felt necessary to our humanity.
Australian aboriginals understood this. To have the bone pointed at one is to be excluded from the concern, care and love of the tribe. This is a sentence of death in their harsh environment. Without the social welfare provided by some modern states most human still live in such a context. Fit in or ship out and die.
The thing we fear above all else is exclusion not the physical and mental brutality that often follows in response. Even in most welfare protected societies many prefer brutality and violence over exclusion, battered wives or abused children fear their siblings or children’s exclusion if the offender is forced out of the familiy group.
See in the end I have not strayed
Exclusiveness of any sort invites violence, in humanity. Is this the price we pay for our at one ment? Clearly it is seen by many as their only route to atonement with God. They know otherwise they have sinned.
Such exclusivity is an original sin. The Internet as such does not practice it yet today was excluded twice first by Blog4God only for Christians: Jews, Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims need not apply. There are it seems many Gods in the eyes of these Christians.
To cap all I wished to explore gender and childhood issues and found BlogSisters. I was again excluded. I am a man.
This piece evolved from my morning blog search. What took me here? Robert Fisk's “Ariel Sharon” Jan6th 2006 . This graphically illustrates all of the above. Go there. Read your soul out Jew, Christian, Muslim or any other on a Way to satisfy ,Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”. He found his in Auschwitz.
As Burns put it:
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
The Prophet’s sentiments I feel.
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