Reflections on Resolutions

NMB, Florida September 15, 2001 A.H. Schectman

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REFLECTIONS ON RESOLUTIONS

The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is not a one day affair. For some it
is two days and in all the Jewish movements it heralds a ten day period of
reflection and repentance. In this new age of post terrorist destruction we
ought to examine the resolutions being made.

Much is being made about prayer. The whole of the United States and many
of its neighbors resolved to spend days of prayer for there is much milling
about and uncertainty about what is to be done. Many resolutions or what
appears to be decisions about what is to be done have been expressed.

One resolution is that which two ultra right religious leaders expressed
yesterday. They declared that the American Civil Liberties Union and the
Liberal leaning leaders of anti-Godliness brought on retribution in the form
of hijacked planes hitting the center of Godless money making secular
commercialism in New York's financial center. The resolve of Jerry Falwell
and Pat Robertson is to blame those who do not fall on their knees and pray
to the God Falwell and Robertson say exists.

I do not think that the God of Jews, Christians and Moslems is the one that
the Moral Majority prays to. I think that the God of Jews, Christians and
Moslems is the same God essentially. There are differences and there are
different histories - but the path began in the same place and we all will
end in the same place.

The God of Hindus and Buddhists may have taken different guises and
different paths than that of the West - but it is the same deity who is
given credit for giving us life and this planet for our own.

I doubt very much that this God that all seem to agree upon blessed the
plans and execution of mass murder by turning our own peaceful planes on our
own people. We should resolve to move forward without destroying our
civilization while making right the wrongs done to us.
Carol's Evaluation: 10 out of 10.