I cannot remain silent. To
witness such grotesque injustice, and say nothing, is to agree with it. This
past weekend I watched thugs marching in the streets of Charlottesville,
Virginia, spewing hate and Nazi slogans, giving Nazi salutes. That is completely
intolerable, completely and unequivocally wrong. I know my history. The United
States of America as well as my own country of Canada went to war, not even a
century ago, against the evil of Nazism. One cannot claim to be a patriotic
American or a patriotic Canadian and be a Nazi.
You just can’t. It is not
physically, emotionally, or morally possible.
Looking at the bigger picture,
I have to ask myself, why do human beings hate?
Why do we allow ourselves to
feel the roiling, boiling cauldron of emotions that leave us full of anger, full
of rage? Full of hate? Those feelings don’t make us feel good. They don’t
create, they don’t uplift, they don’t enhance. Nothing good comes from those
emotions. So why do we allow them purchase within our souls, and within our
society?
Of all the things we, as a
species, permit in our lives, the one I don’t understand is this pervasive,
black, crippling hate, the likes of which we all saw on our television screens
over this past weekend. I can’t understand it. Am I hopelessly naïve? Oh, more
than likely.
So, what makes people
hate?
I’ll tell you one thing, I
don’t as a rule proselytize in my essays. And I won’t over much, this time,
either. But I will say this: I have read the Bible. I state that because I have
also heard some of these haters saying they believe in God, and I do not doubt
that they do: after all, Satan believes in God, too.
I am a Christian, and hate has
no place in my faith. That isn’t my opinion, it’s fact. There is no hate in that
Good Book. Jesus did go into the temple with a whip which He made in response to
seeing God’s House turned into a ‘den of thieves’. That was anger—righteous
anger. That was not hate.
Hate is not the emotion used by
God. Hate is the tool of Satan.
So again I ask, why
hate? There is
absolutely no positive to be gained through hate. See, I told you I was naïve.
The only gain these haters are interested in is power. They hope to overthrow
democracy, and take over, and “purify” their nation. Their words, not mine. It
appears lots of people agree with them. Maybe those people think if there we
only white people around, life would somehow be better. More jobs. More money.
Just like the good old days!
But
that’s not true, not any of it. Those people just want the power for power’s
sake. And once they get it, they may decide, hmm. All those blonde people, just
you know, being blonde. Those blondes steal our jobs, they’re the reason life is
no longer good here. We need to get rid of the blondes! If we got rid of the
blondes, life would somehow be better. More jobs. More money. Just like the good
old days!
Yeah, that sounds silly, but
there is as much logic behind that as there is logic behind their stated goals
and motivations now. Those that would have power at any cost will lie to attain
it.
Let me say that one sentence
again. Those that would have power at any cost will lie to attain it. And they
will use any means—stirring up fears, feeding insecurities, whatever it takes—so
that their mindless minions will believe, and will do what’s asked of them. And
those who are pathological liars just lie because they can’t help
themselves.
I believe in the right of all
people to protest. I believe in the right of all people to speak their minds,
and to have their say and to choose their own beliefs.
However, when people go to a so
called “rally” armed with guns, knives, clubs and shields, they’re not there to
protest. They’re there to commit violence. They are there to hurt other people.
Unarmed people. Ministers, and pastors, and community volunteers. Legal
assistants.
And if they drive their car
into a crowd of innocent, unarmed people, hoping for a high body count? Why,
then they’re terrorists.
We all have the right to
protest. We do not have the right to riot, to hurt, to maim or to
kill.
Love,
Morgan
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