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