The World Offers 40 Hours of No Violence -- And It Still Doesn't Work
40 hours of no violence. Should be nothing. Just not that hard, ya think?
Here in the Los Angeles area that's the idea I got, that powerful people somewhere asked for a 40 hour moratorium on violence in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., whose death was 40 years ago this past Friday.
40 hours.
So, after the 40 hours is up, then what? I can then shoot my annoying neighbor?
You'd think this was about as insipid as you can get, but then, this is the way the world works. "Let's try something, anything to keep people from acting on their hate. Hey, 40 hours. At least it's something."
Yes, it's something all right. Foolishness is what it is-- but, yeah, that's the thing.
World.
It's their thing.
Without Christ it's what they do.
So, yeah, how'd it work? Poorly, from what they say. Three people were still wantonly murdered in that time period.
Mmm. Guess they just don't respect MLK Jr.
Come on, non-violence, gotta be good. Come on.
Then I see TV clips of Buddhist monks kicking in store fronts in the whole Tibet-China thing. Doesn't the Dalai Lama say "Non-violence"? Just like MLK Jr. "Ooo, you violent people, won't you be non-violent already?!"
Ah, so then to keep people from being violent you've got to be non-violently violent against that violence...
My head is spinning.
It only makes sense in understanding a few simple things.
There is a World and a Kingdom. The World is ruled by Cain's legacy, the churches and governments and banks who have been charged with cracking heads of World inhabitants for eons and eons of time. They all crack heads using not only physical violence but tremendous emotional and spiritual violence as well. ("40 hours of non-violence. Wheee!") There is lots of hate, even hating haters which results in lots more hate and violence. Fear reigns.
The Kingdom is ruled by Jesus Christ-- the Jesus Christ, not all the fake ones of many of those World churches. (A 501c3 incorporated church is a World church.) His followers boldly but gently ask those around them if they'd like to enter that place where there is true fulfillment and real freedom. There is lots of love, giving sowing abundant love, even if it means sacrificing one's life to love. This means one may actually love haters, which dissolves fear.
Don't get that?
Well, that's okay, because maybe your lords will impel you to go another few hours without shooting your annoying neighbor. In the meantime you can seethe a lot...
Here in the Los Angeles area that's the idea I got, that powerful people somewhere asked for a 40 hour moratorium on violence in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., whose death was 40 years ago this past Friday.
40 hours.
So, after the 40 hours is up, then what? I can then shoot my annoying neighbor?
You'd think this was about as insipid as you can get, but then, this is the way the world works. "Let's try something, anything to keep people from acting on their hate. Hey, 40 hours. At least it's something."
Yes, it's something all right. Foolishness is what it is-- but, yeah, that's the thing.
World.
It's their thing.
Without Christ it's what they do.
So, yeah, how'd it work? Poorly, from what they say. Three people were still wantonly murdered in that time period.
Mmm. Guess they just don't respect MLK Jr.
Come on, non-violence, gotta be good. Come on.
Then I see TV clips of Buddhist monks kicking in store fronts in the whole Tibet-China thing. Doesn't the Dalai Lama say "Non-violence"? Just like MLK Jr. "Ooo, you violent people, won't you be non-violent already?!"
Ah, so then to keep people from being violent you've got to be non-violently violent against that violence...
My head is spinning.
It only makes sense in understanding a few simple things.
There is a World and a Kingdom. The World is ruled by Cain's legacy, the churches and governments and banks who have been charged with cracking heads of World inhabitants for eons and eons of time. They all crack heads using not only physical violence but tremendous emotional and spiritual violence as well. ("40 hours of non-violence. Wheee!") There is lots of hate, even hating haters which results in lots more hate and violence. Fear reigns.
The Kingdom is ruled by Jesus Christ-- the Jesus Christ, not all the fake ones of many of those World churches. (A 501c3 incorporated church is a World church.) His followers boldly but gently ask those around them if they'd like to enter that place where there is true fulfillment and real freedom. There is lots of love, giving sowing abundant love, even if it means sacrificing one's life to love. This means one may actually love haters, which dissolves fear.
Don't get that?
Well, that's okay, because maybe your lords will impel you to go another few hours without shooting your annoying neighbor. In the meantime you can seethe a lot...
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