The deeper undercurrent of my thinkiing is this:

After the American Civil War where neighbors who had actually killed each others families, forgivenes was essential to go forward as a nation. Lincoln called for forgiveness. He was killed. It may have been essential for him to be killed a martyr to be symbolic of forgivenss for everyone in the nation. Like Christ, the lesson of dying for your sins is clear.

All my life I have encountered various smaller versions of Hitler, Stalin and ethnic religious purists of every stripe. The 'Love it or leave it' people, the 'you are a traitor' if you don't support the war du jour' types have grown more audacious in recent times.

We are poised to elect a President who will either magnify the voice of war for economic gain or forgive those voices and make a change.

My moral delemma is that I do not feel a forgiveness in my bones.
I do hold my Republican war mongering neighbor personally respondsible for the theft and murder of the Bush administrations.
He has never apologized and never will.

IF the the right should kill the populist President again, it will not result in a symbolic forgivess like Lincoln, but rather an IMPLOSION of the entire country.


Goverments and western religion always colaborrate whenm it comes to war. The conspiracy of Billy Graham shows to glorify war and Pentagon plans going hand in hand is the way my country encourages the "faithful" to go to war.
A role of religion was to settle people down after wars of economic explotation and to accept forgiveess of all concerned, except the non believers.

Perhaps this time forgiveness is out of reach.