Matthew 25

[zyzyly]

I was in prison, and you tortured me.
You made me stand on a box, and covered my face.
I was naked and you did not clothe me.
You put a leash around my neck.
I was hungry and you did not feed me.
You made me perform unspeakable acts.
You robbed me of my dignity, in the name of "freedom".

Whatever you did for the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.

Comments

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Yes. For an administration which trumpets its "values", so often, I am eager to see if their values include justice.

[robertstheology.livejournal.com]

Excellent post! This war was a tragic error in judgement, it was not justified. Our leadership manifests hubris and narcissism, they are responsible for these demonic acts which remind me of the Inquisition.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

very powerful post, mike.

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

i can only echo these thoughts.paul

Absolutely Right

[imgomez.livejournal.com]

I've thought of that myself, but you said it better and the image is great.I wish it was an error in judgment, rather than policy. The minute I heard Bush declaring it was an unacceptable aberation, I clicked on my bookmark about School of the Americas. http://www.soaw.org/new/

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[fried-pearl.livejournal.com]

The least of these I woke up one morning with that verse in my head, as if it were a message. It has haunted me ever since. And I often wonder, do our right-wing Christian leaders even know that verse? If they do, they don't seem to take it to heart. Beautiful poem.

[detroitfather.livejournal.com]

I was stuck in a country ruled by a bloody and vengeful dictator, who raped, tortured and killed my loved ones, and you did not come to liberate me from him.

[ex-shemaiah.livejournal.com]

Wow that gave me chills, Thank you. I needed to hear this.

[worldcomrade.livejournal.com]

Yes. Thank you.

[sly-redux.livejournal.com]

Horrible. I could cry just thinking about it. And yet we still claim moral superiority.

[yechezkiel.livejournal.com]

You 'liberated' me, only to deny me my freedom when I could taste it.

[yechezkiel.livejournal.com]

Also, did you liberate anyone or just advocate others doing the job?

We are all responsible for everyone else, but there are limits. And yes, there are times when all we can do is pray. But it's absolutely ridiculous to try and excuse an obvious wrong by arguing that people who point it out are somehow in favor of tyranny.

If that's not what you were doing, I apologize, but it sure looks like it. :\

[mud-in-your-eye.livejournal.com]

Powerful. Thank you.

[detroitfather.livejournal.com]

We are all responsible for everyone else, but there are limits. And yes, there are times when all we can do is pray. But it's absolutely ridiculous to try and excuse an obvious wrong by arguing that people who point it out are somehow in favor of tyranny.

At what point in this post did I excuse any wrong? At which point did I say that anyone was in favor of tyranny? (Except, perhaps the tyrant; I implied that, of course.)

You are reading more between my lines, I think, than the lines themselves.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

yes. the list is almost endless, and we will always fail to see the needs.

Re: Absolutely Right

[tiwonge.livejournal.com]

When, 2+ years ago, Bush declared his war on terrorism, I wrote to my congressperson about our support of the SOA. Nothing came of it, but I did write it, and he did answer with a generic "thanks for your letter" response.

and you did not liberate me

[waypasttense.livejournal.com]

Rwanda with a military dictator and 800,000 people dead in 10 weeks--we did not liberate them by taking over their country.

Iraq, with as "elected" a president as we have, and we "liberate" them AND their oil fields.

How do we pick and choose whose dictator we will liberate people from?

Re: and you did not liberate me

[detroitfather.livejournal.com]

How do we pick and choose whose dictator we will liberate people from?

Well, when you are a very rich super-power nation, your range of choices is expanded considerably. At the two extremes, you can be totally isolated and not liberate anyone (a.k.a., "respect their national sovereignties") or become a full-time war machine and try to liberate everyone.

In between you have the choices. I actually had Rwanda in mind when I made this post. I think for a number of reasons that would have made a more sensible intervention than Iraq.

[edey.livejournal.com]

thank you for posting this. :)

[edey.livejournal.com]

thank you for posting this. :)