It's as common as blowing one's nose these days.
That is, violence. Drive-by shootings. Kids killing kids. Adults behaving murderously, shame on us!
Daily, if not by the hour, another baby, a child, a daughter or son, a spouse, a student is reported to have been murdered. Rape runs rampant. Life is cheapened.
It is time for all faiths to stand together in solidarity to stop the carnage.
High regard for human life is paramount across these United States of American, let along the globe, the one circle we inhabit only decades before we pass on and leave a legacy of such horror unless we unite.
Children of Abraham must stop killing each other. None of our faiths tolerate unjust killing. It is required by our faiths to stand up against all forms of terror, bullying, and murder these days.
Human bloodshed mock the mandate of the Hebrew Scriptures:
"Thou shall not kill."
The Christian Scriptures:
"Love one another."
And, the Islamic Scriptures:
"Killing an innocent person unjustly is like killing all mankind."
Global and local war on life with countless human casualties depresses and demeans the dignity and worth of humans made in God's image and likeness. Moral leaders - giving Lady Justice eyes to see, and, a conscience - must rise together with the daunting challenge for justice and peace upon our cities, my Detroit and surrounding 'burbs, and, beyond.
Long so silent, clergy must rise together.
Weapons and wars are a primitive method of resolving conflict.
A fresh new era of reconciliaton with conversation, dialogue and common ground efforts to work together to end the urban and suburban and rural murders must aim clearly at reminding humans of a better way.
To be better, not bitter over differences that trigger gun use everywhere in my dear ole USA!
To aim higher for decency and respect of every human, to reach deeper into the soul of self and others for meaning and more.
After all, the barber from Iraq who cut my hair last Saturday in Troy, Michigan, is a child of God. And, the other barber from Palestine is loves as much as the Jew and Muslim.
God loves Christians and Muslims. God loves African Americans and Caucasians alike. God loves all political parties, especially the lone and singular one of the Bible: Love!
God is love, the Good Book notes. God is.
We are to be also.
In repentance for not doing enough to live up to a higher standard, I ask gorgiveness, O God!
May God forgive my failings and steer me to help usher in a fresh era of peace this holiest of weeks when Jesus the Christ was murdered. His crime: None but for loving and lifting up all of life in stooping to serve.
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