Sabbath Soliloquy

Abba,

I’m sitting here watching CBS Sunday Morning. The subject is predictably the fifth anniversary of 9/11. There are highlights of progress made in security, etc, but there is equal emphasis upon how little has been accomplished in terms of resolving the hatred that is aimed at us (or the government that supposedly represents us). If 9/11 has accomplished nothing else it has managed to convince Americans that we are the victims. Evil is doing a masterful job of focusing upon isolated events that support such thinking while diverting attention away from the truth that we are not as innocent as we’d like to believe.

The President has finally admitted that he is at war with Islamic fascism, and in so doing he has confirmed pathetic ignorance of his simultaneous confession of Christian fundamentalism. In the end it will finally be revealed that a greedy military industrial complex of which we were warned over a half-century ago plotted and executed the “terrorism” that it now continues to use to propagate and engender chronic fear. We are at “war” with an enemy of our own making, and the gluttonous eco-terrorists driving their Escalades, Excursions, Hummers and Navigators are literally throwing fuel on the fire daily.

Here’s my confession: Why does the human mind immediately reject the revelation of the Christ that loving our enemies is the only godly response to hatred? Is it a cruel joke? Have you provided a solution to the problem that is humanly incomprehensible? Your “old testament” of an eye for an eye makes so much more sense, and we have repeatedly demonstrated our ability to comprehend and implement it. I’m beginning to think that this Jesus thing is just some sort of institutionalized concoction that was somehow used to take advantage of the oppressed and downtrodden. I can’t think of an historical instance when love trumped violent destruction—including Jesus’ story. Maybe our only real hope is to just bomb the hell out of them and be done with it!

Love,
Your gullible child