WE MAY NOT AGREE WITH OTHER RELIGIONS BUT WHEN WE BEAT WAR DRUMS TO FIGHT IDEOLOGY WE BEAT OUR YOUTHS TO DEATH

"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

                                                                                                                              –Jonathan Swift

No nation can beat religious wars. No one has ever won in any of them from the time a fearful neanderthal first clubbed a women to make her succumb to his way and his beliefs. Brutality comes in many forms  Barbarism in a man's world–conquering for control, land, and greed–is now ingrained and programmed in us. We as robots jump on the band wagon of sacrificing youths as burnt offerings on urban alters of combat.  Women deplore sending their children to war, as macho men burst their brass buttons. There are good generals and there are those who betray us.

Dear Ones,

Not all men are hawks. Many are sensitive and grieve over war lords insisting on putting youth's footprints on foreign land to increase the wealth of industrial corporate weapon makers. The best defense for the safety of one's own nation to avoid endless revenge.  All nations must defend their own people and think in humanitarian works instead of blasting Earth to smithereens, a term coined in the nuclear age. If we have to war to defend ourselves, we must.  But when the Bush administration illegally attacked Iraq and fired its standing army, these angry men lost  their jobs,their prestige and naturally retaliated with vengeance in support of the ideology underlying Isis as Pandora's Box opened in flames.

Genghis Khan looked over 30,000 slaughtered Seljuq Muslims who were patrons of Persian art, culture and literature. With great bravado and excess testosterone he beat his chest as he praised his god for his genocide. The trouble with absolutist law religious wars is their power to use sectarian force against the lives of rival sects.

"Men have gone to war and cut each others throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut. . . Men contend more furiously over the road to heaven,  which they cannot see, than over their visible walks on Earth."

                                                                                         –Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy, Supreme Court

Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)