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However I do have a question of my own. WHY is the religious right so angry at everything, so fast to believe anything, and in general just miserable people? When I started my conversion process, one of the things that drew me into the church was the joy and peace I see in so many Catholics, not to mention the saints, in many cases literally living in the rain, eating scraps and dressed in rags, but still happy and free. I myself find that the more I pray and the closer I get to God, the more joy fills my heart. I just feel better then I ever have, why do some others not have that joy and freedom?
It is very interesting that you should ask this question. Strangely, it was part of the weekly message addressed to a local congregation here by a member of clergy. The message relates to the ‘dark night of the soul’, during which we feel distant from God and our fellows.
It is posited that ‘even whole nations experience such nights’, and that the USA is currently experiencing such a phenomenon.
No-one in the US needs an outsider to recite the catalogue of almost insoluble problems, economic, political and military, facing their nation. The point is, if you believe that God will stick by you and ensure that you prosper in the material world, so long as you keep His commandments, then the wheels well and truly fall off … where does that leave you? Angry, demanding answers, unable (or unwilling) to believe that you may be responsible for the mess in which you now find yourself.
Weirdly, from an outsider’s perspective, Tea Party people and other right-wingers seem to want to impose what might be called an ‘angry homeopathic political solution’. What has brought the USA low is the greed, criminality, corruption and incompetence of it’s corporate giants (how could anyone have been so stupid as to invest in those poisonous ‘mortgage’ bundles - American jobs have been going to China for 20 years, and the loans were being made to blue-collar workers!), and the crookedness and idiocy of right-wing politicians engaging in ‘military adventures’. Right-wingers seem to be making increasingly shrill demands for more of the same, and the electorate seems to want to go along with it! The rationale - if something is killing you, take more and more of it. Do you wonder why homeopathy has remained a ‘fringe’ activity?
However, I should say that I love the States (I have family in LA, Arizona and Philadelphia). That is why I say to Americans, especially those on the religious right, don’t give in to the negative feelings that grow from the ‘dark night’. Remember to love God, and your neighbour as yourself, and to act on that injunction.
Peace be with you.
) are the only source. It doesn’t help that the letter from Pepsico doesn’t give a clear explanation on whether they are using aborted babies either.
You don’t have to be a staunch Catholic or fanatical ‘pro-lifer’ to find this sort of thing objectionable.
