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And the rest, folks, is just articulation . . .

For those who believe that murder, and oppression, and domination, and power, and fear, and arrogance, and unrest are holy, then indeed Israel, or Palestine, is the Holy Land. Too negative? Okay, let’s take a quick look . . .

Now, there may be other people in the world reading this, but I’m an American, and I’m guessing other Americans are reading this, so, I’m going to use American landmarks to illustrate this: Have you ever been sight seeing? Have you ever gone on a long road trip, you finally get to the Grand Canyon, stroll out to the rail and gaze over the side at the splendor of nature, then look over to the side and see a bunch of military personal with huge automatic weapons strapped to their back while they’re enjoying their afternoon sightseeing? Yes, you say? Well, then, shortly thereafter did you drive a day, arrive at the Great Salt Lake, begin enjoying the fact that you can’t stand up in it once you’ve gone several feet in, and then see a bus load of military with AK-47s strapped to their backs standing on the bank enjoying their day outside of training? Yes, you say? And then, after another two or three days of driving, you arrive at the Space Needle in Seattle, and you’re standing in line for the elevator up, behind a long line of military with huge friggin’ guns on their backs, who also happen to be sightseeing? Did the psalm go “Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil for they rod and thy staff and my AK-47 comfort me?” I don’t think so.

Don’t get me wrong, the terrorists regularly setting off bombs to try to kill the people with the big guns are seriously lacking any fidelity to any real God too. My point is merely that when the law of your land is that once you become an adult military service is mandatory, your land aint Holy. And if that is the God you’re worshiping, one that says “it is my will that thou shalt arm thyself to the teeth and kill over land if necessary because I’m too unimaginative to love my creation enough to lead them in peaceful loving ways; which is to say I merely created you to amuse me with your violence and tension over whether there’s going to be violence,” then please stop bothering the rest of the world with your mental illness.

It shall be done unto you as you believe is the law. Too Jesusy? Let’s go all “The Secret” on this universal law instead then: You get what you think. And it works on the individual level, and it works on the group level. And if the law of the land is that before you can graduate college you need to know how to put a bullet in someone’s brain, the law of the land is about cultivating violence, not peace. That being said, if the philosophy of your oppressed people is “we’ll keep bombing them until they leave,” again, you’re people want violence, not peace.

So, the problem? Seems like a lot of worshiping of false Gods over there. Namely, Ares, the God of war. And we all know that the Greeks did away with their Pantheon a long time ago, and with good reason: who likes worshiping war? The answer: those people!

You see the Jewish God was apparently big on slaughtering every man, woman, child, goat, dog, chicken, and ant that looked like it subscribed to a different God. And we all know how Allah feels about Jihad. So, by worshiping these false, archaic, obsolete, petty misconceptions about God, in other words by worshiping books instead of reality, which is a far worse idolatry than worshiping a statue, people are worshiping death and depravity and flatly denying the existence of a real, living God.

I mean, I contend that there’s just one God, not two. It doesn’t live on a mountain, It doesn’t live as a rock; It is the mountain and the rock, one and the same simultaneously, as well as you and me right now. It hasn’t just created us all equally as Its children, It is us. I contend that this one real God Loves us all unconditionally, and would be really happy if we stopped killing each other off in Its name. Because I think It Loves us and wants us to live and respect the fact of every existence, rather than trying to stop different existences. I think It wants us to try to help each other to make life better for each other, which ultimately will make for better living for ourselves, because I think It created us to enjoy life rather than finding ever new creative ways of destroying what It decided to create. And not only that, I believe it is sincerely rude to doubt that which created us, and extremely arrogant to think we know what It wants, especially when what we think It wants is to destroy what It created to begin with.

So, in closing, I contend that if the residents of the Profane Land can stop making Godless destruction their policy of culture for five minutes, maybe it can be a beacon for the world and thus be entitled to the Term “Holy” in a real sense, and not merely a sick joke of naming themselves the dead opposite of what they are in order to feel better about the fact that they spit in the face of God every day merely by waking up to strap a gun on their backs or a bomb to their chest yet again.

“He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

-Robert Frost from “Mending Wall”

Salaam!