Honor of a lifetime to meet His Holiness Pope Francis. I leave the Vatican more determined than ever to pursue PEACE in our world.
8:20 AM - 24 May 2017 · Italy
This is a rare occasion, where I will use his given name and his surname, but they still will both be spelled in lower case. I will only do him this courtesy once. donald trump has a great deal to learn about "PEACE" and how to "pursue" it. Ya see, I have a tendency to read between the lines.
'Hi. my name is d. j[ackass] trump and i'm going to try to convince you that i have been completely changed by my visit with the Pope. What i'm really going to do is threaten and bomb the shit out of people until they give up (i don't know words like acquiesce).'
In Matthew 5:39, Jesus said "But I am saying to you, you shall not rise up against an evil person, but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other". Ya know, he didn't say this because he liked being hit. He understood that when met with violence, returning that violence in kind, only serves to continue the cycle of violence at best and most likely would lead to an escalation in the magnitude of violent behavior. I am not a Christian, I am not a theologian, I am not a religious person. What Jesus said, has nothing to do with any of these labels. Jesus was addressing basic human nature and a way to stop the cycle of violence. You don't need to be a genius to figure this out or understand it. trump is far from a genius
In modern times we have the gift of being able to record wise thoughts uttered by wise people in a more effective way than 2,000 years ago. Mahatma Gandhi had much to say about violence and peace. Upon reading through many of his quotes, I happened on one that made more sense than I know what to do with. "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Again, wisdom that is so simple an idiot can understand it. I do not believe that trump can.
Martin Luther King Junior:
"But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?...It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity."
Reverend King understood that when a people and when individuals have voices that are not heard, they turn up the volume, so to speak. It may be a conscious effort to be heard, but more often than not, it is simply an expression of deep frustration over the clear injustice that they are experiencing.
trump and those of the mind set that violence will stop violence simply don't get it. As long as the world remains an unjust place, there will be individuals, at the very least, that will express their frustration with violence. Kill one and another will crop up soon enough. We have a violent world simply because humans are violent. The only possible way to develop a peaceful planet is by being at peace within ourselves and with each other. I strongly doubt that trump has a clue, even though the Pope gave him one.
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