The World is Hurting … (11/16/15)
The world is hurting today, my friends — and yet not only in Paris, where over 120 people died and over 300 were injured by terrorist attacks last Friday night. The world is hurting everywhere …
*The world is hurting in Baghdad, where a terrorist attack earlier that same day killed 19 and wounded 41,
*AND the world is hurting in Beirut, where a terrorist attack just the night before killed 43 and wounded over 240,
*AND the world is hurting in Nigeria, where just last month, a terrorist attack killed over 30 Muslims and wounded many more while they were praying at a Mosque in Mulai,
*AND the world is hurting in Palestine, where the Israeli government (to whom the United States gives 3 billion dollars in military aid every year) killed hundreds of innocent Arab children this past October alone,
*AND the world is hurting in Africa, where Christian terrorist groups — among them the Lord’s Resistance Army in the Sudan, the National Liberation Front in India, and Antibalaka in the Central African Republic — are committing astounding atrocities against the Muslims in their midst,
*AND the world is hurting in St. Louis, where racists burned 6 predominantly black churches last October, and indeed all over the United States, where acts of police brutality against both whites & minorities (though disproportionately against the latter) occur on an almost daily basis, with over 1035 American civilians murdered by American police officers so far this year alone,
*AND the world itself is hurting — where over 400 football fields of forestland are destroyed EVERY HOUR to make room for animal agriculture abuses, and where every hour 500,000 thousand of her children — 8500 innocent, caring, sentient animals are ruthlessly murdered EVERY MINUTE in slaughterhouses all over the world, simply because humans like the way their corpses taste when ground up & grilled or seasoned & sauteed.
Yes, my Friends, the world IS hurting — she is hurting badly from crimes of callousness being committed almost everywhere you look .. AND YET all is not lost. Even though it might seem hopeless on the surface, YOU CAN do something to ease her pain. Of course, to “do something”, you are going to have to DO SOMETHING …
*You are going to have to reach out to the Muslims in your community and in-Courage them with Kindness to stand up to the extremists in their religion …
*You are going to have to reach out to the conservative Christians in your community and remind them with Kindness of the words of Jesus Christ their Lord & Savior (specifically the words of Matthew 5:40-48 & those of Matthew 18:3-4 & those of John 13:34-35) — and you are going to have to in-Courage them to start acting accordingly …
*You are going to have to start openly & Peace-fully protesting the wars being perpetrated by your government and the brutal injustices being perpetrated by your police officers …
*And you are going to have to start respecting your world and respecting your children and respecting yourself by treating ALL sentient animals as individuals and not as commodities — by treating them with justice instead of cruelty, by treating them with compassion instead of greed, and by treating them with Love instead of callousness.
The world is truly burning, my Friends, and it is up to US to quench the flames … Please help me do so today … Thank you.
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