Dear Ones,
To understand today's horror and terrorism we must turn back the stained pages of history. Without doing so there's only darkness and gray ashes from ruins of radioactive missiles and toxic bombs. My posts titled "Angels for Peace" and "Song Birds of the World" reflect international voices for peace, as my first blog, "Cry For Peace," is a collection of ancient global quotes to the present.
"You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace."
–Michael Franti, Spearhead band leader
Sequestered men first inscribed words on scrolls of parchment to fill them with bigoted law religion and commands in the the name of an unknown deity. Soon inhuman slaughter became a manifest destiny. Words considered sacrosanct turn into brutality–infants burned as sacrifices on alters or girls and young women thrown alive into a pit such as high "holy" mountain in Machu Picchu, Peru.
Today other religions such as Isis in the Middle East mimics the Great Commission–ongoing revenge through forced conversion at the threat of death, with the world now up in armpits of blood–between Israel and Palestine ever since Paul and Peter founded the first original proselytizing church in Antioh, Turkey (Asia Minor).
The United States was founded on freedom to pursue the religion of one's choice. After fleeing from the clutches of the dogmatic law religious Anglican Church of England, the newcomers tried to convert the New World into one biased bigoted faith of life, liberty and happiness for Caucasian men who were members of the Protestant Church that had centuries ago protested Catholicism.
However, to the indigenous people of the Americas, the invaders knowing nothing about their indigenous culture, desecrated out of disrespect their early landmarks and art. Out of ignorance the immigrants had no respect for their paradise. Instead their ethnic cleansing was dirty and genocidal.
The United States became the leading nation not through religion but in spite of its bane. Only through humanitarian reform in quelling endless bigotry will we gain respect in a world downing in bigotry. The outcry–"only giving up original religion" will you be saved–is the trigger that still savagely slaughters opposing faiths caused by superstition, what turned out to be a nightmare later called religion. From this primitive fixation of anxiety over disasters of nature from the cosmos, came the word "Heaven," in a planet of endless retaliation.
We can keep our good place in history only when we set an example to reform religion by not tolerating the archaic mission to convert the world into one persuasion–violation of church and state. International humanism doesn't include invading, bombing and occupying other peoples lands to build more churches that offend rival religions on foreign lands. United States influence of justice and democracy alone is strong enough to help others help themselves through diplomacy, democracy, communication and sincere negotiation.
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
helenesmith1, blog spot. com
Advocate for support of Indigenous People
