anotherlook

Did you see how young the attackers of Mumbai were?  They should have been in school somewhere or planning a family, yet they were armed and deadly.  There are different death totals being broadcasted but you can be sure that it was between 176 and 180 lives that were lost, as well as, the 300 or so injuries, creating an uncertainty as to the total number of deaths that will be attributed to this one act of insanity. 

Hate is a strong motivator and an enthusiastic metaphor for direct and aggressive acts.  Why exactly do people hate?  Hate takes more energy to promote; hate makes you irrational and angry and on some levels, hate is contagious.  Why would you want to walk around daily with that much negativity floating around your essence? 

Life is full of opportunity to hate but it is full of opportunity to love as well and to be positive in your interactions with other people.  When I see all of the violent, irrational, absurd acts that are happening now and have been happening in the Middle East, I can not help but to remember things that happened long ago and are documented in the Bible. 

Ironically, in the days of Jesus, his people did not understand him when he walked the earth; they turned on him, denied affiliations with him and in the end they crucified him because some of them could not truly grasp the concepts he was bringing forth.  After all, they were looking for a savior of a different kind and even with all that they witnessed through Jesus and his acts, some where left with a bad aftertaste in their mouth one of jealousy and judgment. 

Now, all these years later and some still do not see nor do they understand the concepts of Jesus.  Some have even denied the existence of such a being and those are called the antichrist.  I have to ask myself if all of this discontent, violence and hatred could be a direct cause of things that happened all those years ago and the divide that took place then.   

Is it a feeling of due by some; a due that has been too long in the coming or is part of it guilt of things gone before?  I could see where guilt could play a role in the level of the violence and the thought of the great sacrifice of life for the good of the cause being involved in the strapping on of a bomb, to your body or the fight to the death as happened in Mumbai.  Was the creation of chaos the only motivation in a violent demonstration of perceived wrongs committed by Westerners and the People of India the only thing on the agenda of these young people who perpetrated fear and uncertainty in the hearts and the minds of the people attacked?  

There has always been unrest in the Middle East and sometimes I believe there always will be that unrest and it will always be based on things that have gone before.  Even if God himself came down and spoke to the inhabitants of that particular area, there would be those who would misinterpret the words and deeds done by God.  Sometimes, I believe this is the justice that God created for his people for not abiding by his laws and this is why there will never be any rest in the lands in that area. 

Whatever the causes you can be sure that the hate will continue to grow and the recruitment will never end as long as there are dissatisfied, guilt ridden people who follow a speaker who speaks to the evils that lie within the disenfranchised, disenchanted, disillusioned, hate filled minority that are insistently, creatively and with malicious intent, developing new ways to produce chaos whenever they can.   What a shame, for us all, to have to accept this as a way of life and learn to live with the knowledge that this can happen at anytime and anywhere and that there is very little that can actually be done to stop it unless the terrorist themselves slip up in some way during the planning process to alert the authorities that a plan is being hatched.  What a disturbing and distressing outlook for the years to come. 

And that’s the way I see it!!

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