Mark 8:15 Update To Present

 

"Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod." Mark 8:15.

The Pharisees were the spiritual leaders of the day.  Herod, of course, represented the State of the day.  The two influences, Church and State, comprised the authorities of the day.  

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to see a video from the Academy of Ideas on the topic of mass media.  

Jesus warned about believing what they have to say.  So the message has been updated.

NASA Climate Scientist Has Had Enough

Noam Chomsky on manufacturing consent.  

The Spiritual Sides Of War And Peace: a poem

 

I was thinking of the goings on in the Ukraine and all the human suffering that has happened and how much more is yet to happen.  

I wrote the poem below with the thought there are two sides to war.  Enjoy the video reading of the poem.  Feel free to share it.  Peace is good, war is evil.  There are those who fight and create suffering that they themselves and others must endure.  

There are the good and there are the evil.  The evil make war and produce suffering that they themselves and other humans must endure.  Spiritually speaking all war dead die as a result of fratricide, such is the spiritual nature of war. If we are all one in God we are all brothers and sisters.

This is an anti-war, or perhaps more correctly, a pro-peace, poem.  I view war to be 'Evil' and peace to be 'Good'.  War is anti-human. To engage in anti-human activities is to be 'Evil'.