Compassion and forgiveness are wonderful traits, and they are a step in the right direction, yet they will not be enough to change the world for the better. Compassion, forgiveness, and mercy must be linked to justice, or we tread around on the same old wheel, the wheel of suffering and death forged by ignorance and arrogance, that never leads us out of violence and injustice. We are 2, 015 years since Christ died on the cross in his attempt to bring the truth of abundant life to earth, and injustice and a growing lack of compassion and mercy still looms and grows like the ballooning elephant in the room worldwide. Injustice, violence, and a lack of mercy is still entrenched: toward women throughout the world (not just in third world countries, but perpetrated on our daughters and granddaughters on college campuses under Our very noses, and also enshrined in various so-called holy books, Epistles, or prophecies, or written into the internal framework and operations of so-called religions [vs. what are established theocracies]), toward the entire black and brown race of people and all people of color, homosexuals, transgender people, and anyone literally or apparently defenseless like children, the elderly or infirm, those with cognitive or physical limitations, shy folks, or just the gentle. Included in the group of defenseless are all those left to their own resources in concrete and asphalt communities abandoned of money and jobs and any trace of the natural world, and without any educational means to overcome the extreme poverty thrust upon them; the only recourse left to them is in the pursuit of drugs and crime (a boon for-profit prisons), or selling their own bodies and their precious lives to whomever including corporate interests and agendas. And, that is just injustice among the human populations. We also have mounting injustice, violence, and a lack of compassion toward wild animals, farm animals, birds, fish, insects, plants, crops, seeds, trees, forests including ancient forests, soils, rivers, lakes, aquifers, waters, oceans, the air that all life breathes, the atmosphere, and the ionosphere. Why? Violence and degradation grows and grows toward love and life itself, and we ... what? Die ourselves one-by-one on endless crosses while we watch others also die on crosses? And forgive? Was this the sum of Christ's message?
"I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly." Christ did not come to earth to just die and forgive; he came with a message of life, of full and abundant life to be lived right here on earth, just like the one willed on heaven. The truth of life and love, which Christ said would set us free, is still unknown and/ or unacknowledged. We are still enslaved prisoners of everything that is not the truth. And yet, the corruptions continue, the corruptions of life and love. Corruptions only happen with manipulation, lies, and deceptions. What is it that we continue to manipulate, lie, and deceive ourselves about, and allow ourselves to be deceived with? What is the truth that will set us free?
On Mar 14, 2015 KarenY wrote:
Compassion and forgiveness are wonderful traits, and they are a step in the right direction, yet they will not be enough to change the world for the better. Compassion, forgiveness, and mercy must be linked to justice, or we tread around on the same old wheel, the wheel of suffering and death forged by ignorance and arrogance, that never leads us out of violence and injustice. We are 2, 015 years since Christ died on the cross in his attempt to bring the truth of abundant life to earth, and injustice and a growing lack of compassion and mercy still looms and grows like the ballooning elephant in the room worldwide. Injustice, violence, and a lack of mercy is still entrenched: toward women throughout the world (not just in third world countries, but perpetrated on our daughters and granddaughters on college campuses under Our very noses, and also enshrined in various so-called holy books, Epistles, or prophecies, or written into the internal framework and operations of so-called religions [vs. what are established theocracies]), toward the entire black and brown race of people and all people of color, homosexuals, transgender people, and anyone literally or apparently defenseless like children, the elderly or infirm, those with cognitive or physical limitations, shy folks, or just the gentle. Included in the group of defenseless are all those left to their own resources in concrete and asphalt communities abandoned of money and jobs and any trace of the natural world, and without any educational means to overcome the extreme poverty thrust upon them; the only recourse left to them is in the pursuit of drugs and crime (a boon for-profit prisons), or selling their own bodies and their precious lives to whomever including corporate interests and agendas. And, that is just injustice among the human populations. We also have mounting injustice, violence, and a lack of compassion toward wild animals, farm animals, birds, fish, insects, plants, crops, seeds, trees, forests including ancient forests, soils, rivers, lakes, aquifers, waters, oceans, the air that all life breathes, the atmosphere, and the ionosphere. Why? Violence and degradation grows and grows toward love and life itself, and we ... what?
Die ourselves one-by-one on endless crosses while we watch others also die on crosses?
And forgive?
Was this the sum of Christ's message?
"I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly."
Christ did not come to earth to just die and forgive; he came with a message of life,
of full and abundant life to be lived right here on earth, just like the one willed on heaven.
The truth of life and love, which Christ said would set us free, is still unknown and/ or unacknowledged.
We are still enslaved prisoners of everything that is not the truth.
And yet, the corruptions continue, the corruptions of life and love.
Corruptions only happen with manipulation, lies, and deceptions.
What is it that we continue to manipulate, lie, and deceive ourselves about,
and allow ourselves to be deceived with?
What is the truth that will set us free?