Thanksging 2008

"Then we find spreading over the surface of human affairs, as patches of sunshine spread and pass over the hill-sides upon a windy day in spring, the idea that there is happiness in self-devotion greater than any personal ratification or triumph, and a life of mankind different and greater and more important than the sum of all the individual lives within it. We have seen the idea become vivid as a beacon, vivid as sunshine caught and reflected dazzlingly by some window in the landscape, in the teachings of Buddha, Lao Tse, and most clearly of all, of Jesus of Nazareth.
Through all its variations and corruptions, Christianity has never completely lost the suggestion of a devotion to God’s commonweal that makes the personal pomps of monarchs and rulers seem like the insolence of an overdressed servant, and the splendours and gratifications of wealth like the waste of robbers. No man living in a community with such a religion as Christianity or Islam has touched can be altogether a slave; there is an ineradicable quality in these religions that compels men to judge their masters and to realize their own responsibility for the world."

Unless, Mr. H.G. Wells, you choose to re-think your words from beyond, because the concepts of Christianity and Islam are now perverted in 2008. Liberal Christians have perverted the religious gospel of Jesus into a social gospel and then into socialism and radical Muslims have perverted Allah’s call to convert the infidels into a terrorist Jihad. History is cyclical and life is only fair by accident.