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Blessed Shall He Be
Psalm 137 is a bit strong. It's also heart wrenchingly beautiful.
It begins "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept* and ends "O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery.... blessed shall he be that taketh thy children and throweth them against the stones."
There are many folk on both sides of the war in the middle east who are feeling- and acting in the spirit of- that last verse.
(Incidentally, the British Quakers, speaking through the mouthpiece of the Yearly Meeting, have become the first of our "churches" to call Netanyahu's war aims what they so obviously are- genocide.)
The question arose at my theological college in the mid seventies whether we, as good, milky Christians, should be chanting those final words in our worship, but my friend John Armson- who was then chaplain- said absolutely yes we should, because we all have the potential for pitiless fury in our hearts and should acknowlege it.....
Otherwise it has the potential to leap out suddenly, take us unawares and master us....
It begins "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept* and ends "O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery.... blessed shall he be that taketh thy children and throweth them against the stones."
There are many folk on both sides of the war in the middle east who are feeling- and acting in the spirit of- that last verse.
(Incidentally, the British Quakers, speaking through the mouthpiece of the Yearly Meeting, have become the first of our "churches" to call Netanyahu's war aims what they so obviously are- genocide.)
The question arose at my theological college in the mid seventies whether we, as good, milky Christians, should be chanting those final words in our worship, but my friend John Armson- who was then chaplain- said absolutely yes we should, because we all have the potential for pitiless fury in our hearts and should acknowlege it.....
Otherwise it has the potential to leap out suddenly, take us unawares and master us....
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Stalin killed millions of citizens because he build communism. It was named revolution.
Putin now killing million russian and ukrainian because he build USSR 2.0. It was names Special War Operation.
Israel killed thousands arabs and jews because of building Israel. It was named genocide also…
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That describes what Hitler did.
Stalin murdered people he thought of as political enemies. I don't think that's genocide.
And Putin is waging war. Again, I wouldn't call it genocide.
But I'm splitting hairs. However and why ever you do it killing people is wrong.....
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Stalin built a new society and it is Soviet people, using killing of millions russian, ukrainian and other nations lived in USSR. Killing and assimilation millions of people not a genocide against nations lived in USSR?
Putin want eliminate Ukraine as independent state by killing million ukrainian and russian. Not a genocide against people lived in Russian Federation and Ukraine?