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Whose violence is worse<\/strong>
\nThey argued<\/strong>
\nThe insane asylum patience<\/strong>
\nCondemning barbarism<\/strong>
\nAs the strongest barbarians<\/strong>
\nWrite history<\/strong>
\nAnd write makes right<\/strong>
\nOr sow it might<\/strong>
\nAs cartoonish caricatures<\/strong>
\nCapture humanities<\/strong>
\nA tension<\/strong>
\nLeaving those under<\/strong>
\nLying causes<\/strong>
\nUniformly camouflaged<\/strong>
\nAmid academic renditions<\/strong>
\nIn citing violence<\/strong>
\nAbel to question<\/strong>
\nGod and neighbor<\/strong>
\nAnd a religion that means<\/strong>
\nPeace<\/strong>
\nFor know One<\/strong>
\nCon fronting<\/strong>
\nThe insanity<\/strong>
\nOf necessary evil<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem, universally condemning violence, was inspired in the wake of the murders of 12 cartoonists and journalists in France.\u00a0 The perpetrators of this violence were apparently Islamic extremists, in contrast to other extremists such as those perpetrating violence in a secular, Christian, Hindu, or Jewish variety.\u00a0 Violence is an evil to be rejected.\u00a0 Violence should be rejected whether it is a lone assailant or with the official sponsorship of some nation-state or religious sect.\u00a0 Still, there is a special place in hell reserved for those who sponsor hell-on-earth by heaping violence upon violence in some official capacity.\u00a0 If you believe that violence is a moral imperative, or in some amoral way necessary, I would suggest exploring a bigger God or worldview.\u00a0 Perpetrators of violence are self-fulfilling prophets.\u00a0 If we don’t transcend the notion that violence is necessary, we will be rewarded with the perpetual struggle to dominate one another.\u00a0 We are all recovering from the effects of violence.\u00a0 This experience of hurt and loss feeds a reciprocal response with violence.\u00a0 Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.\u00a0 This is a powerful law of both physics and metaphysics.\u00a0 This law should not be taken flippantly; just look at the havoc perpetuating itself through the action of this law!\u00a0 However, while this law has profound ramifications on human life, a palpable sign of the divine order of the created universe, humans are not bound only by this law.\u00a0 Human free will, moral agency, can choose other options besides tit for tat.\u00a0 Free will is a supernatural aspect of reality in the sense that it transcends mere physics; it adds stuff to the mix of nature and its rolling out of the cause and effect world.\u00a0 As Gandhi so profoundly put forth, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”\u00a0 Of course, you don’t “have to” be nonviolent, just as you don’t “have to” be violent.\u00a0 This may be the most profoundly beautiful aspects of human life, that each of us get to add our chosen reality to the mix of our shared reality.\u00a0 And these choices will echo in eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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