During Holy Week Jews and Christians reject divine sanction for the brutality of the Egyptian and Roman empires.
Yet during this week our Secretary of Defense invoked the Bible to justify brutal killing in an illegal, preemptive attack on Iran. Over 73,000 migrants, like Jesus, are dehumanized in overcrowded ICE concentration camps.
Instead of dealing with the blowback from the 1950s CIA coup in Iran and Guatemala along with climate change, our actions intensify political unrest and immigration, making us less safe.
Meanwhile, astronauts return to the moon, looking back at Earth as they did on Christmas Eve, 1968. Will this perspective remind us we are Earth’s stewards, not dominators? Will ICE abuses, like those in Birmingham and Selma, awaken our compassion? Will the divisive, fear-mongering culture wars end our 250-year-old republic, or will we have a rebirth of freedom and humanity?
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The choice is ours.
Ron Nason
Midtown
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