Harsh observation
When you give peanuts to peacemakers and billions to weapons industries expect your children to die.
Revenge
When you burn someone to death, the lungs breathe the fire. But this is as true of a bomb from the sky as it is from a torch.
Most innocents are not killed in conflict by savage murder. Most die from ‘you hit me, so I hit you harder’.
It is the savage in all of us that is the real killer to be chained. We dismiss the terrorist and waltz back into war.
The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them. Ezekiel 18:20. (6th Century BCE) Enough said on house demolitions, carpet bombing.
Both anti-religious people and religious militants cherry pick the worst of religion. So Ezekiel is slaughtered along with Isaac on Mt. Moriah, that is, Jerusalem.
Let the God of Abraham take care of his own popularity. Follow the prophets, and wed them to human rights. The combination will undo the killing.
Warriors dance death at night around a pit of fire, burning their lungs, while angels wait for daylight, so they too can dance.
© Marc Gopin
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