The corporate entity disguised as human

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If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

God once gave the Babylonian state the ability to emulate human attributes. The king and his advisors stumbled catastrophically. Since then practically every nation has made the same mistakes while claiming to be sources of goodness.

The ability to stop doing bad things and turn to doing good things

“‘Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you: break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’” (Daniel 4:27, NASB)

A massive twist of fate

eejoseph, ,

Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?

My wife and I lost a son when I was at college.  As the end of my baccalaureate years closed in I was losing my respect for the campus community and felt less in common with the religious community whose interests I was supposed to champion.  I would have left college with an unmistakably great academic record, lots of professional promise, record-breaking achievements, but with an opinion of the campus community that it did not deserve. 

The entire community came to mourn with us.  They brought food, they brought money, and they brought themselves, most  just to sit silently with us.  The love we felt was undisguised, genuine and is unforgettable.  Every aspect of the community’s support was perfectly loving.

Behold the legacy of law and order

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Blind to science and knowledge the agents of American power and Israeli wisdom have been on a homicidal trail fully convinced that their deeds will never come to light. The discovery of Mass graves of children in Canada has sharpened my moral arrows to the point that anyone – ANYONE – who dares to paint themselves or anyone else as mature and responsible for their adherence to legislation or instruction immediately joins the slow of heart and foolish on my list. I know, there are many who swear by law and order, right and justice, and these are the same people who have nothing to say about the abject dereliction of the duty as humans, much less of enlightened and spiritual people, to recognize neighbours and care for them. Now, in 2024, the discovery of mass graves behind a prison in Mississippi has to awaken the male lions of America.  A report from NPR opens the festering wound of barbarity.

Mississippi Jail Graves Investigation

Maybe the lions are fast asleep and not even mass murder arouses them.  The wholesale murder of children in the schools does not arouse them. The ill treatment of refugees and migrants does not shake them. What do we think has been playing out in Palestine for the last 70 years?  Justifiable ethnic cleansing? Let us be certain about one thing: the legacy of law and order is not what we say about law, regulations or  instructions, but what we do.

“Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways.” (Isaiah 59:7, NASB)