Cruel leaders are replaced
only to have new leaders turn
cruel.
Che
Guevara, a just human being; he was
born
on this date, 1928, in Argentina.
He
was assassinated with the direct collusion
of
the American CIA in 1967.
Why is Jesus, why is the
Buddha, why is Gandhi so attractive? Why is Muhammad not so attractive - and this
is an issue that Islam has to deal with? Because the former did not “turn
cruel” – and to the “modern ear”, Muhammad turned cruel … this is why I shy
away from him … and why I so long
for Islam to get to the place where they will examine their Scripture, and
Muhammad, and bring scholarship to bear on the examination of their Scripture.
I’m a Christian as my major
spiritual path. I was born into a Christian culture … and it’s pretty hard to
move to another path. However, the Gospel of Jesus (as opposed to what
“Christianity” has made of Him and His teaching) is, as John Howe implies, an
authentic path to the fullness of being human, by a standard attributed to
Divine Love. I have found it so.
Cruelty is not of the Gospel.
But it is of “the World” ... and we
see it in America today in spades, especially in the so-called Christianity
which has rejected Compassion, Justice, Love, and Brother/Sisterhood in favor
of power and of rank hate for those whom Jesus embraced and loved and chose to
live His life with.
Che gave his life, as Jesus
did, in love for people oppressed and dehumanized by their cruel leaders. Such
cruel leaders are with us today.
I have two thoughts. First, stop electing such leaders. And
secondly, banish cruelty from your heart.
Brian+
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