Wake up! Haven't you realized in peace there are no them? Why are we so fast at pointing fingers at others to make them the guilty, the blameworthy, and the enemy?
Since that time of good and evil everything has been blamed on the devil for being responsible for things that are considered bad. The so--called bad people are not a race or a nation on their own. They are people who have broken laws and done things out of the norm of what is believed to be good. But these days when priests become pedophiles, when businessmen become tyrants and politicians become murderers how can the line be drawn to separate the two. Where are the markers, what makes them them and us us? How does one cross the line?
It is ridiculous to measure a person's goodness by what he does in the public eye because what goes on behind the scene could be something completely the opposite. It's just as ludicrous to judge a person from the way he looks because you'll never know the purity of one's heart. If all of us give up this thought of 'us' and 'them' we would be able to move closer to a truce with everyone here on earth and find that peace we have been eluding ourselves about.
Somehow through misguided teachings we are always the good guys praying for the others, hoping to save them and consciously avoiding those who do not fit into a certain category we are so adamant about asserting. Doesn't that itself sound contradictory to our belief in the quest for peace and harmony?
So wake up! Look around you and ask yourself the big question of who is 'us' and who is 'them' because in the end we are all the same. We are all equal. We are all connected. But for believers who still insist that they are right I wonder if they should be considered 'us' or 'them'?
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