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14-10-07, 09:50 PM
Because those of us who claim Christianity view Jesus Christ's ultimate sacrifice as a spiritual gift of possible salvation to those who despised him, and because they use him as a model for at least their verbal behavior, it places us in the unenviable position of needing; to sacrifice ourselves to save our destroyers. It places us in a pyschologically unsound, no win situation. We are moved to place ourselves in harms way, to betray those closest to us who would act against our enemies (those betraying our Christ), to forgive whatever is done to us as an act of someone who just does not understand what they do and to operate suicidally in the presence of our enemies.
We want to be Christ, "attention wise." We want to be the one glorified for the ultimate sacrifice. The biggest prize, the greatest fame would come from saving the bringers of chaos and destruction by allowing them to kill us in the name of Christ. We selfishly, "selflessly" give ourselves in the hope that our death will guide them to see their wrong and, in turn lead them to beg us for forgiveness. This seemingly unselfish act would, of course, also guarantee our entry into an otherworldly heaven.
There are three things wrong with this thinking though.
One, our enemies do know exactly what they do to us. They are not confused or blind to the meaning behind, or effect of, their actions.
Another is that there is no conscience to prick. These are psychopathic people. As Bobby E. Wright so deftly observed, they are racist psychopaths, fully intent on our genocide.
And, the other is that they are already doing what they know is right. There are no minds to change them from. They are already thinking out of their right minds....
Mwalimu Baruti
EUREASON
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals
Omowale Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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