How sad! How
spiritually corrupt. Hate-mediated
disposable indiscriminate death, the latest versions in El Paso TX and Dayton
OH. When will we examine our collective
conscience? Our society assents to its
own atrophy, by violent attrition. Guns
as always the solution. Glamorized in
our fictions. Guns for killing those we
despise for their race, politics, poverty, or perceived personal threat to
us. We are in the process of indiscriminately
shooting ourselves, for our own protection.
It has become a national obsession, a duty to be armed. Everyone should be packing, to not be is to
be irresponsible. In Guns, not God we
trust [God invoked but the gun comes first].
Shoot first, pray and ask questions later, but let us not ever pray,
“into God’s hands commend our spirit,” unless well-armed ourselves.
We have become our own Weapon of Mass Destruction. On a larger scale, in the same trajectory as
our daily guns massacres [251 in the first 219 days of 2019], we have just
abandoned another nuclear arms treaty.
There will be no more limits on our Intermediate Nuclear Forces, and we
are on the verge of stopping our START treaty on the biggest nuclear weapons
with the Russians, so we can both rush on into oblivion, no holds barred--to extremity
and beyond! This is only good for those
whose business and true belief is the supremacy of weaponry. The military
industrial complex has no place for a merciful God who welcomes all the peoples
of the earth as children.
There will now be only one major arms control treaty left
standing from the 1980’s Nuclear Freeze movement. That is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
which has been terribly weakened in practice, especially by the nations with
the most powerful nuclear weaponry [most prominently the U.S.]. Many are the humanitarians and clergy who’ve
tried to save our country from the Mutual Assured Destruction. Yet we are about to freeze ourselves in to a
nuclear arms race which can end, in self and planet destruction.
s we allow for outbreaks of hyper-armed citizen violence on
our streets, it becomes harder and harder to hold ourselves up as living in the
land of the free pursuing happiness, liberty and justice for all. The same applies to our role as the world’s
most prolific profitable arms maker and exporter.
For all the conservatives who believe that protect-oneself-at-all-costs
measures are good, how will this help us being pro-life? How can these callous killings masked as justified
in someone’s perverted racial, political or religious thinking, bring our
society any closer to ending abortion? The message is that anyone's life, friend or enemy, is dirt cheap. Arming
ourselves to the teeth to shoot the shooters first just further floods our
country with overwhelming lethality.
We’ve become too accustomed to violent death inside and outside the
womb.
Dr. Martin Luther King preached of the primal threat to our
souls of the three headed monster of militarism, racism and poverty. This beast has met its companion, posing
mortal danger to our values: a monster
of giant military weapons, private weapon arsenals, and abortion machines. Justifying and then trivializing the intent
to kill anywhere in life, ends in spiritual death for a society. We are all here on the planet a very short
time. Let’s do some good, and fully
respect life. Put away all the swords.
