Poem – Out of darkness – A poem about hope from terrorism.

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Out of Darkness

I am angry. I cannot understand the mentality of anyone who believes it is not only OK, but a commandment, to heartlessly shoot some unarmed person, to rape a child, to slice a throat. I cannot comprehend.

Religious fundamentalism dehumanizes people.

There is no love, tolerance or freedom. It is toxic.

Religious fundamentalism, whether it is from the god-fearing Christians of the Southern States of America or the Jihadist sadists of the Arab Muslims, is a medieval insanity.

It is enough to make you hate.

It is sufficient to make you want to drop bombs, destroy and exterminate.

The thoughts of the poor innocents being tortured and slaughtered is as bad as anything the Nazis did. The fascism of of the Caliphate is beyond humanity.

Yet it is humanity. Cruelty is what we are good at. Callousness is our trademark. We care about nothing. We rape the planet with impunity.

We are all savages.

I know that dropping bombs kills innocent people too. It traumatizes and alienates. It twists minds. For every savage killed two jump up to replace them. The traumatized are broken.

The only way forward is education, love and cure. Those that hate need the treatment of friendship and love.

We should drop love bombs.

 

Out of Darkness

You don’t banish dark

Without light.

You don’t banish hate

Without love.

You don’t build a better world

Without tolerance.

You don’t believe in evil

Because it is written.

You don’t allow anger

To make you hate.

 

Let us bring

The love, light and tolerance.

 

There is a better way.

 

Opher 14.11.2015

17 thoughts on “Poem – Out of darkness – A poem about hope from terrorism.”

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  3. I love this one, Opher! Thank you.
    Love and Peace,
    Mary

    1. Now then Cheryl. I’m not having a pop at all Christians, I get a bit worked up about the creationists and fundamentalists who deny evolution, cosmology and take everything in the bible literally. When my daughter lived in Louisiana I encountered a lot of that extreme view. I also encountered in when I taught in California. I don’t like extremism.
      I do not like religion in any form but I’m tolerant of other people’s beliefs and views. I think there are a lot strange esoteric things that cannot, as yet, be explained. Perhaps there is a spititual element? Who knows? For me religion is a personal thing. I do not like the power structure of religions and the indoctrination programmes.
      So – while the South seems to have more than it’s fair share of extremist Christian fundamentalists, the West has a fair few too. And people being OK is more about their personality and tolerance than their own views. For me debate is good. Communication is good. Disagreement is good.
      My mum used to say that it takes all sorts to make a world.
      I’m sorry if I sound a bit extreme or opinionated at times, or clumsy with my words.
      There is much to talk about, agree on and relate to. I certainly value your input and views even if we don’t agree on everything. That’s OK.

  5. Do you think it would work. I am as you know lapse Catholic, I believe in God and I know you do not, that is fine, Jonathan believes in no religion or God all down to what he witnessed as a child, I believe in some form of paradise for me beautiful pastures but that is me. I do agree religion is the cause or is used as a means of violence for those that want to destroy. I am prattling on, stop. Have not even said “Hello” to you yet, apologies.

      1. Wouldn’t that be beautiful and yet I read today of people being attacked because of what happened in Paris, because they are muslims. These people who want to murder do you honestly believe they would listen for our cries of Peace. I don’t know what the answers are

      2. There is bound to be a backlash from the right wing nutters. There always is. Many people think you solve things with a hard line, aggression and violence. They have to be reasoned with. It will settle.
        What is needed is long term solutions – integration, poverty, equality, education.

  8. That’s the problem with humanity! All we do is destroy everything around us without caring at all about the aftermath of it. Even after all these years most people don’t seem to learn from History.

    1. It is the standard knee-jerk response – to lash out, to hit back, to bomb, kill and seek retribution. Violence creates more violence. Hate creates hate. We never learn – caught in the same primitive cycles.

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