Re: As Above, So, Below Part 1.


thefriend wrote:
> I am amazed at anyone who believes that the universe would bestow
> "enlightenment" or "salvation" on anyone in our wonderful modern world of
> mass communication and technology where we can watch children get
> slaughtered or starve to death on CNN while we are in our warm or
> air-conditioned homes having our supper, while the kids are in the den
> playing computer games. Then we go to the Ashram, Buddhist Temple, Mosque,
> Synagogue or Church and pray to God for enlightenment or salvation or some
> kind of mundane desire we wish god to bestow on us. Rarely, do we, who are
> at a relative degree of comfort need the desperate help we know many of
> our people around the world need. WHILE OUR KNOWN BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE
> BEING TORTURED TO DEATH, STARVED TO DEATH, WORKED TO DEATH, SCREWED TO
> DEATH BEFORE OUR EYES. Do you who call on God or seek enlightenment
> honestly believe he hears our prayers when we as a race are in a position
> to eliminate this suffering, whether it is caused by god or man, of our
> people all over the world?
>
> If we who are comfortable, with warm homes, big TV sets, computers, video
> games for our kids, going to the movies every Saturday, pray to our god
> every day for something, what do we think the enslaved 9 year old Indian
> child who is forced to work 15 hours a day, or the African child in the
> Sudan or Mali who is a slave on a cocoa plantation, the starving peasants
> in Haiti or the child or adult sex slave in Bosnia, Senegal, or Myanmar
> are praying for. Who is answering their prayers?
>
> In ancient times or only as far back as 100 or 200 years ago the world was
> not homogeneous like today because of technology and mass communication,
> and could not know as we intimately do today of the horrors that exist in
> our world. So today there is no excuse for allowing the evils and horrors
> that humans or nature does to our less fortunate people.

"So today there is no excuse for allowing the evils and horrors that
humans or nature does to our less fortunate people", other groups of
people, or mistreatment of animals or exploitation of the planets
resources.

I do sometimes dream of what the world could be like if we refocused
all our ingenuity and effort to be less narrowly "self" and "tribe"
orientated.

So much inertia, so many vested interests, so many closed minds, but I
think many people do feel like you...

"we are the first generation that can eradicate poverty"

from

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

I am sure Darwin ony had part of the story

;-)

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