But on this, the 12th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers in NYC, I am reminded of an entire nation that mobilized for the first time, perhaps in human history, against what we perceived at that time to be a common enemy. For the first time we displayed the God-like capacity for compassion and abandoned our crippling biases and "isms" and got down to the business of being our brother's keeper.
Who can forget the horrific images of fire and noxious fumes and the ensuing carnage of human flesh, rubble and FEAR that permeated not only the lower part of NYC, but the entire nation. We were, and still are, to some degree, paralyzed with that same FEAR! Only a few of the 1% really knew what went down on that fateful Tuesday morning and still only bits and pieces of the truth have been revealed to the masses! But, true to form, our nation "reacted!" Every church, synagogue, temple and mosque was filled to capacity after the towers fell for weeks.
A "Godless Nation" sought answers from the One they had ignored. Imagine the audacity to petition a God, the same God, who had been voted out of our schools and government buildings and public meetings because we didn't want offend the public. Keep in mind that 84% of AMericans contend that they are Christians, yet these same people voted God out of the public eye. I call this the Nicodemus Spirit. Look it up if you want to know what that is! Sinners and agnostics and atheists all banded together in FEAR for relief from their emotional, physical and spiritual pain.
We are a nation of hypocrites who seek after the Lord God ONLY in CASE OF EMERGENCY! The is the "reactionary spirit" I was referring to. It is an example of our typical mass response of religiosity and NOT spirituality because the action, or reaction in this case, is driven by FEAR and NOT FAITH! Isn't it amazing that after 400 years years of cohabitation, that we still can't stand one another. That we have abandoned the course of love and peace in lieu of hate and war. That the ONLY sound GOD's hears from our mouths is "HELP!" Why is it that we have to experience calamities like Hurricane Katrina or Columbine or Sandy Hook or Oklahoma City or Trayvon Martin before we engage one another in love?
Hurricane Katrina ravages New Orleans
That the ONLY time we can find time for God is when our collective "butts are in a sling" or one of our psychotic sons or daughters enters into a rural or urban school and tries to kill everybody or our government facilitates the flow of semi-automatic weapons into South Chicago black neighborhoods precipitating gang wars resulting in the mass murders of black youth. That our nation has been anesthetized to foreign war and that the irony is that our quest for peace has always been inextricably connected to war.
It is sad to report that this is what we, as a nation, have been reduced to. We are cavalier in our actions, ruthless in our antagonism, thoughtless in our relationships and heartless to the things that matter. We are callous to suffering, indifferent to spirituality, tolerant to perversion and resistant to inclusion. We are revolutionary to FEAR and reactionary to FAITH. We are, as a collective, a mass incarnation of soulless wanderers waiting for the next bad thing to happen before we do something to help somebody else...I have to say it; people are AFRAID of EVERYTHING else OTHER than GOD! I really believe we have got it twisted!
When will you break the glass? Before or after it is too late.....
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