Fill in the blanks: _____

 

 arguments across history

 "You're the extremist, not me!"

"People like you should not have freedom of speech!"

"WHAT? Me?  No, YOU should be silenced."

Far LEFT? Far RIGHT? Fights in the street. Men in black smashing store windows. No whites on campus this day. YOU can't speak here...YOU don't agree with us.

Lord, help us! Will children be banned from the seesaws or swings because they are dangerous.

So tired.

What about these "crazy/far out ____" ideas? Fill the blanks in with descriptive words to describe what you think of the statement.**

A.  ___ Girl Scouts with survivalist instincts who regularly steal one cookie from each box of cookies because they deserve it.

B.  ___ Lutheran Women's Knitting Society who believe Catholic Women's Knitting really suck and plan to unravel all their projects.

C.  ___ Community Soccer Team for Preschoolers who kick the daylights out of the referee because he always blows the whistle.

D.  ___ Baptist Church Choir who plan to defeat and possibly beat up Methodist Church Choir in Christmas competitions because they think that the Methodist soprano is a ringer. 

E.  ___ Irish Dance festival having an Irish soda bread food fight against a Ballet school at fundraiser because they all think they are so hoity-toity.

F.  ___ Patients in care facilities who sabotage orderly coffee room because orderlies are not solicitous enough when helping patients.

G.  ___  Sports shop employees who loosen skateboard screws because those **** kids listen to wrong kind of music and are just plain irritating.

H. ___ librarians who remove Hemingway books from shelves because he was an alcoholic and had a promiscuous life style. They also have banned Dr. Seuss books.

" Enraged Sunday School teachers who insist children use the New American Standard Bible, NOT the King James version.:

I hope you can write something (totally weird)  in the blanks.

 
Just how far will this go? Statues have been toppled.  Former presidents have been condemned because they owned slaves in the 1700s. Explorers have been reviewed, revised and censored because their discoveries led to unknown consequences.

Who or what is next?

 

Facing Down Evil

Dietrich Bonhoffer

Face of Evil…those words present differently to everyone.

For a four year old? What does a four year old see as evil?  Maybe, just scary, which is plenty.

For teens?  Evil?  Would they recognize true evil beyond “American Horror Story”?

Ah, but for adults…adults see evil in its many forms. Evil comes in the form of amoral, sociopaths, psychopaths, and every other “path” in the world. Adults have the ability to sense evil coursing about them. Some adults choose to shake it off while others turn to face evil in its face. 

This is a time of great evil. 

Watching the sincere protests in the streets following the horrific murder of a man pleading for his life raises anger, no, rage at the death of this man . 

And then to see the following senseless destruction of property and people livelihoods tarnishes and displaces the righteous anger all should be experiencing.  These have distinctly different goals. Confusion remains.

Confusion can't be disregarded, but it can be pushed aside to recognize the most important evil of all: ignoring the value of each life. 

Lives matter. All lives. Lives of Black, Mexican, Native American, Asian, White, and, especially, Blue--no matter the race, each life changes history in some undefinable way.

The lives that were taken, lives that have been ignored, lives that are discounted or seen as useless---these lives cross race lines and mix into the soup of injustice.

Face evil. See it for what it is. Face it down.

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wait Until Dark

Source: Sky Movies

Front row seats

Small theater.

Stage almost at finger tips.

Wait Until Dark

Will she wait?

Will he let her live?

Evil in the light,

Good in the dark.

If she does not kill him in time,

Then I will leap onto stage,

And kill him myself.

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