look, I’d consider myself a pretty die hard christian.
I pray, I read scripture, I go to church and talk to pastors and priests. Heck, I go to confession.
Yet, I think that, no matter your religion (or lack thereof), you oughta be against murder and senseless killing, against bigotry, hatred, and prejudice, against war.
I think if your religion calls for the extermination, or otherwise massacre of certain people, then it’s time to get a new religion, or to at least quit cowering behind religious pretense to justify killing folks.
There can’t be room for zealous hatred, if there is to be cohesiveness and unity. Can’t be room for bigoted oppression, if there’s to be glory, to be liberty flowing like an everlasting stream.
Love, compassion, honor, must persevere even in, especially during the difficult times.
To be hateful is easy. To be bigoted and ignorant and zealous and envious, it is as easy as breaking a porcelain pot.
To be compassionate, however, to be loving, is difficult, excruciating, even.
It does not come easy, especially to those who have been deprived of it for so long, and yet, its rewards are boundless, its beauty marvelous, its extent infinite.
Take a gamble that love exists, and do a loving act.
12:46am, 11/22/2024
