Dear Ones,
This is how I began my blog in 2014. Now near the end of my journey I shall address you once more as "dear ones." After all today the World's leading Semitic religions are still killing one another out of primitive revenge carried over from Biblical times. But let me be specific. Come gather around. I'm sorry I don't have chairs for you all. So I too shall sit on Mother Earth, a good contact for every one. We can sit together as the sun sets under a scarlet swirling sky.. At this time I shall tell you a story that began with Jewish Abraham. It reminds me of a more modern history of the Hatfields and the McCoys, an annual outdoor musical held for decades in Pipestem State Park in West Virginia at Grandview Cliftside Amphitheater where we watched a dramatized show on a natural stage. Here my husband and I took our five children on a vacation where we saw thrilling entertainment. The story opens on a natural setting with men riding horses over a hill in direct view as we sat under a starlight sky to see the history of this feuding family dramatized.
But getting back to the Abraham story that has a different plot within a different culture. It took place around 4000 years ago. Abraham was married to Sarah, but so far they had no children. Now in a man's world at that time, he took on a concubine named Hagar. This leader of his people loved Sarah, but he also loved Hagar in a sexual way. A very old story. In the course of time she gave birth to Ishmael. Human nature being what it is, Sarah was angry and jealous at the same time. She told her husband that no son of Abraham would ever own his property, now land covering what today is Israel and Palestine. It would be traditionally rare that a woman's voice was heard in those archaic days. But even today extremist men would relish the emotion of this ancient woman, with her voice making such a far-reaching audience..
The history of the Semitic Christian New Testament is also interesting. Paul of Tarsus Asia Minor (now in Turk. In reallity this book was forced upon the Jews that didn't believe Jesus was the Messiah. Paul (Jewish name Saul) wrote in his letters that Jews killed Jesus as he peppered much of the New Testament with derogatory remarks about Jews in his published letters to the people at that time. Some historians link these demeaning remarks as preliminary fuel that targets Jews for the heinous Holocaust. In the meantime the Catholic Christian Inquisition lasted for centuries as innocent people were burnedalive at the stake for nor accepting man-made dogma–these sites are marked with plaques to this day all over Europe.
During all this ancient history the Muslim faith was tired of hearing about Christians and Jews fighting over their own related religion. So the last branch of the Semitic persuasion, the Muslims, through the descendants of Ishmael, through their leader Muhammad, rose up as the third Semitic branch of this family religion. Today extemist fanatics, as in the Catholic Inquisition, are chopping off heads of their family opposion as their newly formed ISIS and the Taliban. They are copying bad behavior of their family members in the past. We all need to lighten the load of World-wide religious violence and terrorism as absolutists preach and push for their own family branch to rule Earth and all its people.
World Enlighened News, W.E.N.
Helene, author of Entire Songbird Angels For International Peace,
