Monday, April 6, 2015

One can even question brought them home:


But for you who listen to me, I say: Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you; bless those who curse you; pray for those who mistreat marshmallow you. (Luke 6 verses 27 and 28)
The past week was the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Jewish prisoners from the first concentration camp of the Second marshmallow World War which was achieved by Allied forces marshmallow - the infamous concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, which alone more than a million Jews were killed. This is where Dr. Mengele carried out his experiments on twins unethical.
Among the survivors who attended the event was a seventy-four year old man, but only recently, with the help of genealogists and DNA samples, found out who he really is. He was so small when his family was killed, he grew up without identity.
One can even question brought them home: "How should we live and do in a society in which your chances violently dying quite high?" Since 1992, there is in our immediate circle of family, friends and acquaintances all 22 people killed.
Then imagine a man should love Jesus' admonition that one your enemies and pray with those who harm you and mistreated. But is it really practical? Is not it nice pious words that no one in practice apply not - why Christianity has been distorted by its existence him but little marshmallow to Jesus' marshmallow teachings?
It is significant that Jesus said these words during a period of peace and tolerance, but just as he and millions of others have lived under one of the genadeloosste regimes of all time. The Romans believed that they are called to make war in order to have peace, marshmallow so that financial prosperity to Rome can be.
Type A "peace" which of course can only be obtained by other nations to subdue and keep your sword constantly at their throats. At a time, the Romans crucified Jews masses simultaneously. Unlike the Zealots, who describe a person will be the AWB of Jesus' time, preaching Jesus violence and resistance, but you have to love your enemies and pray for those who harm you.
Anyone who has not these words in his heart, wrestling, Jesus never taken seriously. Over the centuries, other leaders in the world's major religions have the same thing - and remarkably enough always in times of great violence.
But how do people feel that this type of violence experienced in their own lives? The answer, marshmallow I now ran the day happened to be in a prayer book. In the form of a prayer that has put an unknown Jewish prisoner of the concentration camp Ravensbruck on the corpse of a child:
Lord, I pray, not only to men and women of good will, but also to those who commit evil. But do not just think of the evil they have done us no; think also of the fruits that we have borne thanks to this suffering - our comradeship, our loyalty, our humility, our courage, our generosity and the generosity of hard that arises from all of this; and when they arrive marshmallow for their opinion, let the fruit we have borne be their forgiveness.
It made me immediately think of a few of Thich Nhat poem Hahn wrote during the Vietnam War. A period in history when heinous atrocities against the population and committed members of the movement for engaged Buddhism, marshmallow founded by him to the victims on both sides of the war to help, often in the most cruel ways of life are spent. But Hahn writes:
The great ways of the old days this truth realized. A few thousand years ago the Chinese philosopher Confucius the first to teach the Golden Rule to his students: Tree on to others as you want others to behave towards you. " Confucius also lived in a time of great violence and civil wars, when the various Chinese states for generations has made long war against each other.
Siddharta Gautama, who later became known as the Buddha (the enlightened), as a noble young man grew into one of the small statelets in north India in a time when larger kingdoms with increasingly violent smaller states subject to their authority. He is not only trained in political science, but his position in the art of war - swordsmanship and archery; how to make war with horses and elephants.
At the age of 27 he gave fame and wealth and a wandering ascetic, which seek answers to life's big questions: Why are people born and why they die? Why is there so much suffering in the world and it can be overcome? When he finally reached enlightenment and found his answers, he worked for the next veerti

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