Pope Should Remember Catholic History Plus Others
I am surprised at the Pope's quote from Muslim history. This current pontiff should remember the years of interrogation, murder, and torture by the Catholic Church and the Iquisition in the name of God's work. He could remind the world of the Crusades, a Holy War to take over lands and cities for the Church. He could talk about the genocide committed against the Native American so these indigenous people would be converted and oh, yes, the countless captured African slaves who were beaten to death because they were heathen - despite being stripped of all dignity and given baptism and a Christian name even before they were forced to abandon their own beloved Africa. The pontiff could remind us too of the Protestant witch hunts that killed, tortured and burned countless women whose property and power the European clergy sought to destroy. Perhaps he could remember to mention the lawsuits currently still being heard where the Catholic Church looks the other way while their own priest destroy lives through sexual crimes and assaults. And what about the current Bush administration's cover-up of prisons with reported torture and death in the name of protecting democracy plus sending thousands of young men and women to kill and be killed while leaving their own families, wives, mothers, fathers, and children to mourn and cope with little or no help from the military bureaucracy.
It would seem little men can point accusatory fingers and tell big lies in order to justify the abuse of power; be it Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Republican, Communist, etc. etc. etc. The true message of the Christ, the God, the Great Spirit is to love and be loved, anything other than this, no matter who declares what, is false, destructive, and anti-Christ, anti-democratic, and anti-humanitarian. In every age, in every culture, in every religious belief there are those who seek to rule making their own ungodly agendas the "religious truth and justification" of the times. My father taught me at a very early age that "two wrongs don't make a right."
How many wrongs repeated over and over again will it take to show the world: "we must seek a new way, a new passage, a new look forward." The Pope is in such a position with a Universal podium that he could speak the truth of the future about loving all peoples, about forgiving all humankind for acts of terrorism, deceit, and destruction. He could speak of a world wide togetherness for beauty, healing, creating, being happy, and giving birth to winning solutions.
Where or where is the sanity, the power, the balance of great minds and great hearts? We so need to hear the voice of reason from all those who have the ability to speak of goodness, kindness, and peaceful resolutions.
To see a design, message and art to support loving solutions for world concerns go to:
www.cafepress.com/peacedoveworld.
The above words and images are copyrighted by Amber Silverstar 2006
I am surprised at the Pope's quote from Muslim history. This current pontiff should remember the years of interrogation, murder, and torture by the Catholic Church and the Iquisition in the name of God's work. He could remind the world of the Crusades, a Holy War to take over lands and cities for the Church. He could talk about the genocide committed against the Native American so these indigenous people would be converted and oh, yes, the countless captured African slaves who were beaten to death because they were heathen - despite being stripped of all dignity and given baptism and a Christian name even before they were forced to abandon their own beloved Africa. The pontiff could remind us too of the Protestant witch hunts that killed, tortured and burned countless women whose property and power the European clergy sought to destroy. Perhaps he could remember to mention the lawsuits currently still being heard where the Catholic Church looks the other way while their own priest destroy lives through sexual crimes and assaults. And what about the current Bush administration's cover-up of prisons with reported torture and death in the name of protecting democracy plus sending thousands of young men and women to kill and be killed while leaving their own families, wives, mothers, fathers, and children to mourn and cope with little or no help from the military bureaucracy.
It would seem little men can point accusatory fingers and tell big lies in order to justify the abuse of power; be it Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Republican, Communist, etc. etc. etc. The true message of the Christ, the God, the Great Spirit is to love and be loved, anything other than this, no matter who declares what, is false, destructive, and anti-Christ, anti-democratic, and anti-humanitarian. In every age, in every culture, in every religious belief there are those who seek to rule making their own ungodly agendas the "religious truth and justification" of the times. My father taught me at a very early age that "two wrongs don't make a right."
How many wrongs repeated over and over again will it take to show the world: "we must seek a new way, a new passage, a new look forward." The Pope is in such a position with a Universal podium that he could speak the truth of the future about loving all peoples, about forgiving all humankind for acts of terrorism, deceit, and destruction. He could speak of a world wide togetherness for beauty, healing, creating, being happy, and giving birth to winning solutions.
Where or where is the sanity, the power, the balance of great minds and great hearts? We so need to hear the voice of reason from all those who have the ability to speak of goodness, kindness, and peaceful resolutions.
To see a design, message and art to support loving solutions for world concerns go to:
www.cafepress.com/peacedoveworld.
The above words and images are copyrighted by Amber Silverstar 2006
