Shalom, Salim, Peace, Paix, Paz...
These reflections arose after I viewed a friend's text meme that depicted snow falling on a Victorianesque New England scene that included a cozily-lit home, a church, several snow-covered trees, a blinking star and the words: "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
SCORECARD of Rights & Wrongs
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Hallmarks (fantasy) replaced by MAULmarks (reality)
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War is Over...if we want it...Let's come together and IMAGINE this...
Children cry out in song...
--It is commemorated on this day as a response to the suffering of Palestinian and Lebanese children in the context of the 1982 Lebanon War.
The occupation of Palestine...
"Nobody's right if everybody's wrong..."
Who is my Neighbor?
Unlike the others, the foreigner stopped, cared for the man's wounds, put him on his horse, carried him to an inn and paid the innkeeper to care for him until he returned....
313 A.D. Church & State join forces...and those on the "bottom" lose
The last great formal persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ended in AD 303. Ten years later, Christianity was legalized by Constantine I. After this structural change, Christianity increasingly accepted, and even defended, the dominant social order, especially concerning war and money. Morality became individualized and largely sexual. The Church slowly lost its free and alternative vantage point. Texts written in the hundred years preceding 313 show it was unthinkable that a Christian would fight in the army, as the army was killing Christians. By the year 400, the entire army had become Christian, and they were now killing the pagans. [Click link below to continue reading...]
Added 12/28/24...the landscape seemed topographically appropriate...
1914 WWI Christmas Truce
A video reenactment...
In Other News...
UNITED NATIONS — Women and children are the main victims in the Israel-Hamas war, with some 16,000 killed and an estimated two mothers losing their lives every hour since Hamas' surprise attack on Israel, the United Nations agency promoting gender equality said Friday.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says nearly 25,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict, 70% of them women and children. The United Nations says more than a half million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving.
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