Robert C. Koehler: Cluster bombs vs. open hearts

Mine! Mine! Mine! Praise God . . .

This is perhaps the worst thing human beings do: They take their deepest values – connection, love, empathy – simplify them down to a religion, a name (Christianity, let us say, or Judaism, or whatever) and suddenly they have a flag to wave and a “cause” to go to war for. And the blood flows. Kill the savages! Kill the non-believers! Kill the enemy! (Take their land.)

Here’s the question of the day, as Israel continues to inflict hell and starvation on Gaza, as brutal conflict and murder rage across the planet: How do we reclaim of humanity to connect with itself, in fear of that enemy.