As I write we are witnessing on TV present century violence that is escalating due to people of dark skin continuously held down on the lowest scale of justice.
Dear Ones,
Following the US Civil War when slaves were at last freed by the dedication of abolitionists. Harriet Tubman, a slave herself, saved hundreds of people in bondage by helping them escape. In the aftermath of that war with over 70,000 Americans killing one another over the hierarchy of class, the nation was padlocked in fear of the backlash of thousands of freed slaves rising up and killing their masters–the reason for illegal Jim Crow laws against the downtrodden.
The government and the bigoted disfranchised these people who were tortured if they even learned how to read. They were completely without power. But after centuries of struggling for equality they finally are striking back, with members of their nationality now professionals and having equal pay among the men. Now the US Constitution is at last telling the truth–all men are free with justice for all.
But as police cars burn through clouds of choking tear gas, we see with our own eyes that there is still strong racism against American Africans after centuries of time.
Class struggle takes in other countries besides the United States. In India now having over a billion people, a caste system still exists, although it is discouraged. The hierarchy of color-coding humanity still controls its out-casts–high status over low status. The British pitted Hindus and Muslims against one another to force "divide and conquer" through disparity and discrimination between castes. Centuries later dark skinned Indians–"the Untouchables" (Dalits)–are still forced to do undesirable labor.
Indo-Europeans started the system of castes, the hierarchy of superiority over those without money or power. Freedom at Midnight brings out the fact that Hinduism's Aryan founders perpetuated the system of "enslavement of India's dark, Dravidian populations." The term "caste, varna, means color.
Hindu hordes descended from the north to invade and occupy semi-aboriginal Dravidian inhabitants as its holy men wrote sacred Vedas of persecution via grade of color, as the US continues to physically profile with black and white. Black is code for slave. We've gotten over red and yellow so-called races, but the most rival labels ares still explosive. Man even calls outer space men he's never seen, "little green men!"
Self-appointed British poet, Rudyard Kipling, didn't help the crisis. He proclaimed English men were well-fitted to rule "lesser breeds without the law" – "with God" (meaning Providence) pulling the strings of the British believing "God was on their side"–still a world misconception in other nations.
From these Sequoian deep roots has come vicious class struggle, along with the biblical myth of Ham, one of Noah's son's, who was seen naked before his father, and banished to Ethiopia (once a name for all of Africa). Out of this story the misinformed thought all people of African descent should be slaves! This is the stupidity that TV host Bill Maher has been revealed for years.
The words apartheid, caste and race (a bogus, divisive term invented by a German in the late 1700s) all mean separation by light skinned men fixating on persecuting dark skinned men. The term "tall, dark and handsome" also reflects a fear that light-skinned women will marry the ones the men condemn from birth to be low class.
As the authors of Freedom at Midnight note, English wives set the scene in Victorian India. "The social separation of English and Indians was their doing . . . to shield their men from the exotic Indian sisters as their men succumbed with zest, leaving behind a new Anglo-Indian society suspended between two worlds." This automatically happened when lonely early trappers and the French fraternized with first Native American women, many ancestors of present inhabitants of the Americas.
The Church Militant was also at fault. It directed peasants of the Middle Age affected by social inequities to forget their misery from biased corruption and accept resignation for a reincarnated life–a pie in the sky when you die–something no one can prove.
Leviticus 25:44-46 law condemned non-believers of Hebrew faith to slavery–Ethiopians. The bigoted rule later was transferred to American Indians and American Africans (all dark complexioned) through the Pauline New Testament that adapted the same biased law of bondage.
As prophet Gandhi believed, "Only non-violence can save mankind." With Prophet Jesus also saying, "Blessed are the peacemakers."
Mame,
award-winning certified historian and author of over 50 published books (based on history, such as the film script on the escapades of Harriet Tubman, A Case of Honor, from the book America's Most Unsung Civil War General) and hundreds of free essays on the Internet (helenesmith1.blogspot.com)
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Monday, November 24, 2014
THREE MOST INFLUENTIAL PROPHETS IN HISTORY: JESUS, MUHAMMAD AND GANDHI
The most outstanding quality of these great men is their belief in equality for everyone and international peace.
Dear Ones,
Jesus taught "Blessed are the peacemakers." He also loved children and was forgiving.
Muhammed taught to not harm anyone who does not engage in fighting against Muslims. Michael H Hart, a New York astrophysicist, believed Muhammad was the most influential person in world history.
Mahatma (Great Soul) Mohandas Gandhi taught "Castes systems are harmful to the spiritual and economic well-being of a nation." He said caste is neither religious nor racial. He also believed that social division between high-ranking and low-ranking people is evil. Indo-Europeans started the Caste system in India The British then set Muslims and Hindus against one another to divide, conquer and colonize India for themselves.
Any member of these different religions who invent anything different than what these prophets taught is a false teacher claiming that his God said such blasphemy.
Mame,
historian and author of Sallie, Civil War Dog helenesmith1.blog.spot.com
Dear Ones,
Jesus taught "Blessed are the peacemakers." He also loved children and was forgiving.
Muhammed taught to not harm anyone who does not engage in fighting against Muslims. Michael H Hart, a New York astrophysicist, believed Muhammad was the most influential person in world history.
Mahatma (Great Soul) Mohandas Gandhi taught "Castes systems are harmful to the spiritual and economic well-being of a nation." He said caste is neither religious nor racial. He also believed that social division between high-ranking and low-ranking people is evil. Indo-Europeans started the Caste system in India The British then set Muslims and Hindus against one another to divide, conquer and colonize India for themselves.
Any member of these different religions who invent anything different than what these prophets taught is a false teacher claiming that his God said such blasphemy.
Mame,
historian and author of Sallie, Civil War Dog helenesmith1.blog.spot.com
Saturday, November 22, 2014
BILL MAHER IS A GENIUS IN HUMOROURSLY SUGGISTIGNG COMBINING THREE RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS
The winter solstice was celebrated universally since this occurrence from the beginning of rational human time is a seasonal event–scientific proof all nations accept as fact. Later the early Pauline religion chose December 25 for the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
Ecclesiastics used this period since the world already celebrated the winter solstice for endless centuries. Tradition made the transition from science to fiction easy, since people didn't know when the great prince of peace was born.
Dear Ones,
When one biased persuasion attaches a well established date to own a universal celebration, it is sheer chicanery–just as Easter was said to be the mythological time that prophet Jesus rose from the dead. (By the way, if he never died, why does this prophet have to arise again on Earth?)
Easter was the name of a mythological goddess of spring no longer worshiped. The name of Jesus was substituted for the cosmic season of revitalization–the equinox around March 21 when day and night are equal worldwide.
When these deceptions happened, the proselytized world in general no longer celebrated the winter solstice or the spring equinox. During eons of time during the Christian Inquisition and its torturous tribunal, the entire Roman Empire was threatened with death if its masses didn't obey church militant dogmas and these rituals.
"Holy" Halloween, a ghoulish celebration, commenced with church burning alive women thought to be witches in Europe. (church not permitted to shed blood) Pilgrims (from South Hampton, England escaped on the Mayflower from religious persecution) brought the beastly ritual to the United States during the Salem witches trials, the memory still carried on in the tradition of spirited goblins, witches and devils.
The same group of pilgrims, in Puritanical zeal, cut off ears or hanged Quakers has they persecuted them for their religious freedom–why these English Protestants fled from the Anglican Church to traveled over rough seas to the Americas.
A Boston preacher in his sermon said, "I would carry fire in one hand and faggots in the other to burn all the Quakers in the world." And people wonder why church and state must have an iron wall between them!
Religious fervor of any nation is what fuels present bloodshed today, with Tea Party members shouting "Burn the Quran! at their meetings. I and a friend who wanted to see what these meetings were all ab out witnessed the bigotry at Bushy Run Battlefield arena in western Pennsylvania–as radical hatred and bloodshed and billions of dollars.
Thanksgiving started in the United States when religious families came together at harvest time and prayed that their deity would be good to them in the new world. Today people still thank their god for the bounty of food on their tables. Original early paintings depict First Americans sitting with the the Pilgrims and enjoying the repast.
How distorted past remembrance can be! No traditionalist American Indian would celebrate a time when their lands were being stolen from them as they were also scalped. I did research for a paper presented to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. The title was "Scalping is a Hair-Raising Experience. Who Started Scalping?"–one source said it commenced with Europeans who lived near the Black Sea.
At that time I was astonished to learn Columbus and his seaworthy men scalped indigenous people and bashed their babies against trees to get the colonists to give up their gold for the attackers to take back with them for Spanish royalty. This inhumane brutality later was copied and used in revenge by First Americans. They grieved in anguish for family members killed and tortured by invaders and their lust for precious metals. Still to this day those who retained their Amerindian languages and culture do not take part in Thanksgiving celebrations.
Bill Maher also suggests no gifts for the holidays. People could exchange old New Testament gift giving of the Magi (magicians and astrologers) for great celebrations with families gathered in love and joy instead of continuing the same stress and chaos during the holiday season.
How ironic that a satanic Inquisitional religion metamorphosed like a butterfly from a caterpillar to booming manufacture of candy, the food industry including pumpkin, cranberries, greeting cards, party items and other merchandise–gifts which began as soothsayers saw a comet in the sky. For many, holidays mean profit more than a prophet born when King Herod was killing two year old boys and younger. They represent winter month rise in sales and the economy of the merrchants.
So here's to Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas with apple cider, egg not and "figgie" pudding–as long as people drop these archaic dark beginnings. Enjoy family and friend reunions in happiness instead of the burden of sinister mythology. The history of religion is nothing to celebrate or distort to make it look good. No wonder it has taken on a more enlightening atmosphere of congeniality and conviviality.
So what's wrong with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and good cheer?
Mame,
historian and writer of Fission, Fusion, Fission, So Circles the Eagle and 50 other published books based on history helenesmith1.blogspot.com
Ecclesiastics used this period since the world already celebrated the winter solstice for endless centuries. Tradition made the transition from science to fiction easy, since people didn't know when the great prince of peace was born.
Dear Ones,
When one biased persuasion attaches a well established date to own a universal celebration, it is sheer chicanery–just as Easter was said to be the mythological time that prophet Jesus rose from the dead. (By the way, if he never died, why does this prophet have to arise again on Earth?)
Easter was the name of a mythological goddess of spring no longer worshiped. The name of Jesus was substituted for the cosmic season of revitalization–the equinox around March 21 when day and night are equal worldwide.
When these deceptions happened, the proselytized world in general no longer celebrated the winter solstice or the spring equinox. During eons of time during the Christian Inquisition and its torturous tribunal, the entire Roman Empire was threatened with death if its masses didn't obey church militant dogmas and these rituals.
"Holy" Halloween, a ghoulish celebration, commenced with church burning alive women thought to be witches in Europe. (church not permitted to shed blood) Pilgrims (from South Hampton, England escaped on the Mayflower from religious persecution) brought the beastly ritual to the United States during the Salem witches trials, the memory still carried on in the tradition of spirited goblins, witches and devils.
The same group of pilgrims, in Puritanical zeal, cut off ears or hanged Quakers has they persecuted them for their religious freedom–why these English Protestants fled from the Anglican Church to traveled over rough seas to the Americas.
A Boston preacher in his sermon said, "I would carry fire in one hand and faggots in the other to burn all the Quakers in the world." And people wonder why church and state must have an iron wall between them!
Religious fervor of any nation is what fuels present bloodshed today, with Tea Party members shouting "Burn the Quran! at their meetings. I and a friend who wanted to see what these meetings were all ab out witnessed the bigotry at Bushy Run Battlefield arena in western Pennsylvania–as radical hatred and bloodshed and billions of dollars.
Thanksgiving started in the United States when religious families came together at harvest time and prayed that their deity would be good to them in the new world. Today people still thank their god for the bounty of food on their tables. Original early paintings depict First Americans sitting with the the Pilgrims and enjoying the repast.
How distorted past remembrance can be! No traditionalist American Indian would celebrate a time when their lands were being stolen from them as they were also scalped. I did research for a paper presented to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. The title was "Scalping is a Hair-Raising Experience. Who Started Scalping?"–one source said it commenced with Europeans who lived near the Black Sea.
At that time I was astonished to learn Columbus and his seaworthy men scalped indigenous people and bashed their babies against trees to get the colonists to give up their gold for the attackers to take back with them for Spanish royalty. This inhumane brutality later was copied and used in revenge by First Americans. They grieved in anguish for family members killed and tortured by invaders and their lust for precious metals. Still to this day those who retained their Amerindian languages and culture do not take part in Thanksgiving celebrations.
Bill Maher also suggests no gifts for the holidays. People could exchange old New Testament gift giving of the Magi (magicians and astrologers) for great celebrations with families gathered in love and joy instead of continuing the same stress and chaos during the holiday season.
How ironic that a satanic Inquisitional religion metamorphosed like a butterfly from a caterpillar to booming manufacture of candy, the food industry including pumpkin, cranberries, greeting cards, party items and other merchandise–gifts which began as soothsayers saw a comet in the sky. For many, holidays mean profit more than a prophet born when King Herod was killing two year old boys and younger. They represent winter month rise in sales and the economy of the merrchants.
So here's to Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas with apple cider, egg not and "figgie" pudding–as long as people drop these archaic dark beginnings. Enjoy family and friend reunions in happiness instead of the burden of sinister mythology. The history of religion is nothing to celebrate or distort to make it look good. No wonder it has taken on a more enlightening atmosphere of congeniality and conviviality.
So what's wrong with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and good cheer?
Mame,
historian and writer of Fission, Fusion, Fission, So Circles the Eagle and 50 other published books based on history helenesmith1.blogspot.com
Friday, November 21, 2014
POETIC JUSTICE FOR MESTIZOS– AMERINDIAN & SPANISH–AFTER PRESIDENT POLK FUELED ILLIGAL IMMIGRATION INTENTIONALLY TO PROVOKE MEXICAM WAR FOR LAND CONQUEST≠≠
Today people are complaining about the unfairness of helping present families who have immigrated here illegally years ago. Yesterday Mexicans complained about the unfairness of illegal US immigration on their western territory. It was a case of one free sovereign nation breaking laws of another free sovereign nation that ended up as war.
Dear Ones,
When President James Polk was in office he committed illegal take over of western lands through sheer provocation against Mexico on behalf of Texas and other indigenous land.
The original border between the United States and Mexico was the Nucces River. During Polk's Manifesto the line changed to the Rio Grande River, that went through Texas. He then put boots on the ground to take over western territory forcefully and brutally. Remember also the Alamo in the Texas Revolution of 1836.
Lying that the Mexicans shot first, Polk declared war that brought about masses of illegal people ravaging indigenous property. First Americans were cheated out of their land again–business as usual–just as American corporations stole Hawaii from the native people with corruption used against the queen.
During the Mexican War of 1846-48 people were even more upset than they are today due to how unfair it was. People of American Indian and Spanish descent (miscegenation)–intermarriage between two different nationalities–were victims–friendly neighbors.
Some of the strong voices against the US illegal immigrants invading and occupying Mexico were Congressman Abraham Lincoln, General U.S. Grant, Horace Greeley and even Polk's own soldiers he sent to invade Mexico. Colonel Hitchcock of the 3rf Infantry regiment said "the US is the aggressor and that we had no right to invade Mexico, which was obvious.
John O'Sullivan, editor of a New York newspaper, in 1845 coined the term "Manifest Destiny" meaning–providence or "God" willing this Mexican unjust immigration. As the Hebrew Bible proclaims, "There is no justice under the sun."
"Those who don't remember their history remain children all their lives."–Cicero
Mame,
helenesmith1.blog spot.com
Dear Ones,
When President James Polk was in office he committed illegal take over of western lands through sheer provocation against Mexico on behalf of Texas and other indigenous land.
The original border between the United States and Mexico was the Nucces River. During Polk's Manifesto the line changed to the Rio Grande River, that went through Texas. He then put boots on the ground to take over western territory forcefully and brutally. Remember also the Alamo in the Texas Revolution of 1836.
Lying that the Mexicans shot first, Polk declared war that brought about masses of illegal people ravaging indigenous property. First Americans were cheated out of their land again–business as usual–just as American corporations stole Hawaii from the native people with corruption used against the queen.
During the Mexican War of 1846-48 people were even more upset than they are today due to how unfair it was. People of American Indian and Spanish descent (miscegenation)–intermarriage between two different nationalities–were victims–friendly neighbors.
Some of the strong voices against the US illegal immigrants invading and occupying Mexico were Congressman Abraham Lincoln, General U.S. Grant, Horace Greeley and even Polk's own soldiers he sent to invade Mexico. Colonel Hitchcock of the 3rf Infantry regiment said "the US is the aggressor and that we had no right to invade Mexico, which was obvious.
John O'Sullivan, editor of a New York newspaper, in 1845 coined the term "Manifest Destiny" meaning–providence or "God" willing this Mexican unjust immigration. As the Hebrew Bible proclaims, "There is no justice under the sun."
"Those who don't remember their history remain children all their lives."–Cicero
Mame,
helenesmith1.blog spot.com
Thursday, November 20, 2014
SECULAR NON-RELIGIOUS GOVERNMENT MEANS FREEDOM FROM SECTARIAN RELIGIOIUS GOVERNEMNT CAUSING ENDLESS WARS
Secular and sectarian are words having the opposite definitions. Secular is democratic neutrality and justice for all. Sectarian is bias turmoil and unjust bigotry–what the world has been witnessing for centuries–law religions in control of government. Democratic is empowerment of reason in a democratic government.
Dear Ones,
It is quintessential for the force of rational intelligence to rule the world. When any nation governs with law religion it leads through blind faith. Blind faith ruling oozes into darkness of war and anguish. This vicious slaughter breeds more of its kind.
Earth's first religious scrolls were written by celibate monks in secluded monasteries twisting mythological words before their time and warping them by their own opinions–with no editors looking over their shoulders. To them a "young woman" in the text meant "a young virgin."
One ruling of a law religion in the Hebrew Bible is seen in the famous Ten Commandments, added to the Pauline New Testament against the wishes of Hebrews. The first of these laws demands no other god than one separatist male one. In time this mandate set off a powder keg of explosions among all the other thousands of rival, quarrelsome laws among world religions.
During biblical days and even before mortal leaders climbed mountains to bring back a ruling from a god. These man-made inscribed tablets represented primitive governing power, a metaphor of control. So-called heavenly mesmerizing threats from religious authoritarians coerced masses to conform to their own dogmas. And the common man still attempts to control with biased creeds and rituals.
How can anyone believe a deity who tells "his creations" he is a jealous god and that he has to be solely worshiped by all the universe within a cosmos of infinity–including one planet of humans in its milky way making mortal laws among endless galaxies. Gospel truth is an oxymoron!
This prime commandment is the reason why US founding fathers insisted on an iron wall between church and state. It also is mandatory that religion is outlawed in secular schools. For decades the enlightened ones in this matter have fought mission creep in public schools–what still causes the shark effect among religious sects or cults. Superstition and fearful threats must not infiltrate secular education.
Blind faith in government incites the darkness of tyranny and the bloodshed and anguish of war.
"You inflame the rancor of party politics by adding to it the fervor of religious zeal or that of sectarian fanaticism, Or else you do worse–you pollute and degrade religion by making her the handmaid of human power or the partisan of personal ambition.–Church and State in the United States, 1964 by Phelps and Pffefer
As Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, "I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free."
Mame,
helenesmith.blog spot.com
Dear Ones,
It is quintessential for the force of rational intelligence to rule the world. When any nation governs with law religion it leads through blind faith. Blind faith ruling oozes into darkness of war and anguish. This vicious slaughter breeds more of its kind.
Earth's first religious scrolls were written by celibate monks in secluded monasteries twisting mythological words before their time and warping them by their own opinions–with no editors looking over their shoulders. To them a "young woman" in the text meant "a young virgin."
One ruling of a law religion in the Hebrew Bible is seen in the famous Ten Commandments, added to the Pauline New Testament against the wishes of Hebrews. The first of these laws demands no other god than one separatist male one. In time this mandate set off a powder keg of explosions among all the other thousands of rival, quarrelsome laws among world religions.
During biblical days and even before mortal leaders climbed mountains to bring back a ruling from a god. These man-made inscribed tablets represented primitive governing power, a metaphor of control. So-called heavenly mesmerizing threats from religious authoritarians coerced masses to conform to their own dogmas. And the common man still attempts to control with biased creeds and rituals.
How can anyone believe a deity who tells "his creations" he is a jealous god and that he has to be solely worshiped by all the universe within a cosmos of infinity–including one planet of humans in its milky way making mortal laws among endless galaxies. Gospel truth is an oxymoron!
This prime commandment is the reason why US founding fathers insisted on an iron wall between church and state. It also is mandatory that religion is outlawed in secular schools. For decades the enlightened ones in this matter have fought mission creep in public schools–what still causes the shark effect among religious sects or cults. Superstition and fearful threats must not infiltrate secular education.
Blind faith in government incites the darkness of tyranny and the bloodshed and anguish of war.
"You inflame the rancor of party politics by adding to it the fervor of religious zeal or that of sectarian fanaticism, Or else you do worse–you pollute and degrade religion by making her the handmaid of human power or the partisan of personal ambition.–Church and State in the United States, 1964 by Phelps and Pffefer
As Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, "I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free."
Mame,
helenesmith.blog spot.com
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
US ADMINISTRATION ISN'T RESPONSIBLE FOR RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS' MURDERS–IT'S RELIGIOIUS LEADERS WHO POISON MINDS OF THEIR FLOCKS WHO MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE
No government is able quell savage actions of law religious men, especially with bombs that cause more retaliation and bloodshed. So called "holy" men teach their members that only through their persuasion can people be saved (what ever that means). They train them to murder and punish in the names of their deities they worship–historic peacemakers who taught the exact opposite.
Dear Ones,
This includes the belief in man-made dogma and superstitious myths and faux miracles, like weeping religious statues. Archaic soothsayers and men posing as gods or their intercessors, tricked people into believing through early mechanical religious devices, now found in museums, especially in the "Believe It Or Not" one in St. Augustine, FL and the London Tower where medieval torture machines are still on view.
These monstrosities show how evil men were during the Inquisition and its evil Tribunal that lasted for decades of centuries and up the the present time in ax and and knife beheading to appease their own false notions.
When deceit is associated with religion, even the human mind begins to believe insidiously. This fact alone is responsible for twisted and warped mentally. It obviously conditions men to become mad in all senses of the word and kill opponents viciously, in the name of their gods who in reality must weep with every deadly stroke against their creations–who the culprits believe their gods created–a complete irony of blind faith.
These absolute rituals and creeds are absolutely corrupt.
Until religious leaders take control of their own extremist fanatics, this religious aggression will keep foaming with madness in future centuries as it has been strangling the minds of innocents who are naive to the wiles of superstition soaked in fear–man's first religion.
Unfortunately humans have been programmed to believe men of faith are infallible and can do no wrong. Well, this vindication is right in front of our eyes everyday as seen on TV or witnessed by combatants on battlefields and in urban war zones. Treacherous, evil men continue to taint the minds of young men who sadly die for an evil man-made religious doctrine.
Mame,
helenesmith1.blog spot.com
Dear Ones,
This includes the belief in man-made dogma and superstitious myths and faux miracles, like weeping religious statues. Archaic soothsayers and men posing as gods or their intercessors, tricked people into believing through early mechanical religious devices, now found in museums, especially in the "Believe It Or Not" one in St. Augustine, FL and the London Tower where medieval torture machines are still on view.
These monstrosities show how evil men were during the Inquisition and its evil Tribunal that lasted for decades of centuries and up the the present time in ax and and knife beheading to appease their own false notions.
When deceit is associated with religion, even the human mind begins to believe insidiously. This fact alone is responsible for twisted and warped mentally. It obviously conditions men to become mad in all senses of the word and kill opponents viciously, in the name of their gods who in reality must weep with every deadly stroke against their creations–who the culprits believe their gods created–a complete irony of blind faith.
These absolute rituals and creeds are absolutely corrupt.
Until religious leaders take control of their own extremist fanatics, this religious aggression will keep foaming with madness in future centuries as it has been strangling the minds of innocents who are naive to the wiles of superstition soaked in fear–man's first religion.
Unfortunately humans have been programmed to believe men of faith are infallible and can do no wrong. Well, this vindication is right in front of our eyes everyday as seen on TV or witnessed by combatants on battlefields and in urban war zones. Treacherous, evil men continue to taint the minds of young men who sadly die for an evil man-made religious doctrine.
Mame,
helenesmith1.blog spot.com
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
COMPASSION OF PETER KASSIG AND HIS PARENTS
The magnanimity of Peter' Kassig's devotion for founding a relief organization and helping wounded Syrians instead of returning to those who trained him for war has touched the hearts of the world, similar to the great prophet Jesus of Nazareth, the great peace maker. The fact that Peter's parents, Ed and Paula, have forgiven his assassin is enlightenment for those of the living who only have so much time in our short journeys to Earth. My husband and I still feel overwhelming grief. We lost all our sons, what breaks our hearts forever.
These parents sent a message over TV to the assassin of their son, "May good will prevail"–and added, "Rather than letting the darkness overwhelm him, he chose to believe in the good–in himself and others." He believed that one person can truly make a difference for a better world, and proved it in his short life-time.
Dear Ones,
Until we all realize that bombs decapitate more people than the lift of arms bearing swift sharp swords of battering aggression, we will never see the cessation of the on rushing tide of bloody, circular retaliation. Arms of man in all senses of the word will eventually reform, if Earth's survives the arms' abuse. The archaic days of King Hammurabi must vanish–an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. This anger and hatred only multiplies in endless futile battle.
All the world's arsenals of atomic bombs, radioactive missiles and chemical munitions can never bring international peace. Until militant men stop producing, exploding and exporting all kinds of lethal weaponry, including the knives for torture, they will keep digging black toxic smoking holes on Earth that fuel tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes and other radical weather.
The life of Mohandas Gandhi also shows us the will and compassion of the heart, as did the parents of Peter. After Muslims had ruled India for centuries there was bloodshed leading up to India's Independence in 1947 and its aftermath when part of India became Pakistan. At one point a friend of Gandhi's, whose son was killed by a Muslim, ran to him in anguish, hatred and advise for retaliation.
But Gandhi instead said to him, "Find a Muslim orphan who was killed by a Hindu and raise him as your own." But the bereaved man gasped, "No way could I do that!" However, after contemplating Gandhi's words, he came back to Calcutta, weeping again, but this time on bended knees saying he would do it. This is why Gandhi is still remembered as Mahatma–the great one.
The parents of Peter Kassig have expressed the same humanitarian compassion with their son's assassin. Instead of anger, hatred and revenge they forgave him. And somehow I intuitively believe that the killer, if he isn't insane, has a conscience that will bother him tremendously the rest of his life and possibly may change it for the better while influencing others as well.
On the other hand, some authorities claim Peter was killed in US-led air raids or by drones, with Isis led by (former generals of Saddam Hussein in Iraq before it was invaded, attacked and occupied) taking advantage of his corpse and making a video describing how he was beheaded for revenge, as they have actually decapitated other victims. But since Americans never know how many innocent people are killed or wounded as "collateral damage" from bombing, the question goes unanswered–out of sight, out of mind.
Peter rests in peace for his gentle, kind spirit, but assassins' minds are poisoned by vicious, brutal revenge. Surely some of them may visualize the light of reason and lead others toward it. But we will never know since it is impossible in the present to see into secret chambers within the human mind. We can only hope for the best.
Peter and his virtuous parents have influenced the world with the fresh spring of hope. As poet Alexander Pope said, "Hope springs eternal in the hearts of man." This essay is dedicated to them.
Mame,
helenesmith1.blog spot.com
These parents sent a message over TV to the assassin of their son, "May good will prevail"–and added, "Rather than letting the darkness overwhelm him, he chose to believe in the good–in himself and others." He believed that one person can truly make a difference for a better world, and proved it in his short life-time.
Dear Ones,
Until we all realize that bombs decapitate more people than the lift of arms bearing swift sharp swords of battering aggression, we will never see the cessation of the on rushing tide of bloody, circular retaliation. Arms of man in all senses of the word will eventually reform, if Earth's survives the arms' abuse. The archaic days of King Hammurabi must vanish–an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. This anger and hatred only multiplies in endless futile battle.
All the world's arsenals of atomic bombs, radioactive missiles and chemical munitions can never bring international peace. Until militant men stop producing, exploding and exporting all kinds of lethal weaponry, including the knives for torture, they will keep digging black toxic smoking holes on Earth that fuel tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes and other radical weather.
The life of Mohandas Gandhi also shows us the will and compassion of the heart, as did the parents of Peter. After Muslims had ruled India for centuries there was bloodshed leading up to India's Independence in 1947 and its aftermath when part of India became Pakistan. At one point a friend of Gandhi's, whose son was killed by a Muslim, ran to him in anguish, hatred and advise for retaliation.
But Gandhi instead said to him, "Find a Muslim orphan who was killed by a Hindu and raise him as your own." But the bereaved man gasped, "No way could I do that!" However, after contemplating Gandhi's words, he came back to Calcutta, weeping again, but this time on bended knees saying he would do it. This is why Gandhi is still remembered as Mahatma–the great one.
The parents of Peter Kassig have expressed the same humanitarian compassion with their son's assassin. Instead of anger, hatred and revenge they forgave him. And somehow I intuitively believe that the killer, if he isn't insane, has a conscience that will bother him tremendously the rest of his life and possibly may change it for the better while influencing others as well.
On the other hand, some authorities claim Peter was killed in US-led air raids or by drones, with Isis led by (former generals of Saddam Hussein in Iraq before it was invaded, attacked and occupied) taking advantage of his corpse and making a video describing how he was beheaded for revenge, as they have actually decapitated other victims. But since Americans never know how many innocent people are killed or wounded as "collateral damage" from bombing, the question goes unanswered–out of sight, out of mind.
Peter rests in peace for his gentle, kind spirit, but assassins' minds are poisoned by vicious, brutal revenge. Surely some of them may visualize the light of reason and lead others toward it. But we will never know since it is impossible in the present to see into secret chambers within the human mind. We can only hope for the best.
Peter and his virtuous parents have influenced the world with the fresh spring of hope. As poet Alexander Pope said, "Hope springs eternal in the hearts of man." This essay is dedicated to them.
Mame,
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