'Fertilizer for blessed killings' (a different sort of Paschal reflection)

'Fertilizer for blessed killings' timothy r gates, 4/13/2012

Blessings given
water sprayed over the soldiers
"IN THE NAME OF G-D, GOD, ALLAH --
WHOEVER, WHATEVER!"
or, in the claimed better way,
"SECULAR HUMANISM, ATHEISM, AGNOSTICISM!"
yes, a cursory look at these in our species-story will show what?
or, better yet,
those claiming not to be part of such passions --
they merely snub you to death if you don't lock step to their call.
i do love the silliness of those saying,
"well, our group has never fought in war,"
equivocation of their blessings as something else.
i'm sorry, there's no way,
when sports' teams huddle and pray,
that they are wanting anything other than a
WIN...
"Oh Lord, please help us do our best
(and bless the other team to do their best too),
and cause us to be an instrument of your peace....."
-- whoops, fell prey to an actual prayer of deference.
At least the sociopath simply quips,
“Get your ass outta of my way. It's mine now.”
Governments and blessings to them offer
our young as
heroes, martyrs, the brave (all true for the heroes, martyrs and the brave),
all the while only wanting what they call
“OURS.”
and what is done to those heroes, martyrs, the brave?
Fertilizer for more of the blessed killing.
Memory Eternal! Namaste! It is enough - Ich habe genug*!

*J.S. Bach, op. 82
I reflect upon the passion of our Lord, all claiming not to have killed him, many blaming this or that group, yet forgetting that the primary infraction, no matter what you may or may not believe about this crucified person, is the cowardly indifference towards the murder of an innocent person, and that the masses of that day from all sides cried out loudly or by their chosen silence added to the state's justification to nail him to the tree. Today? I would only pray that I would not be part of the loud or deaf cries against his innocence, and then for his murder. Our salvation, as it is called, is not only a story in time whereby our sins are somehow forgiven, and we are made new. If this is all it is it is no more than another's sociopath self-justification of one's own place in this and the next world. If we are redeemed, then we stand with this innocent savior and with those yet today being slain simply because they do not fit the prerogatives of this or that group, nation, family or.... “No greater love has a person than to lay down their life for their friend. You are my friends if you do what I've said to you.” (do the same as he, lay down your lives in behalf of others.) Mercy.