Does your religion have true love and unity and do the people really care for each other or is it just a ‘church on Sunday’ religion?
Is it that God comes first, then prayer, then rituals, then meditation, then preaching, then meetings but people are not on the list anywhere? Could this be a reason religion has been abandoned, because people don’t feel loved anymore?
Love includes commitment. For example, we might love the victims of hurricane Katrina, but we might be
apathetic (as President W. Bush was) and do nothing as people died needlessly, while he refused to get off of his vacation. Actually, W. Bush said that he had a hard time quitting his addictions (presumably hard narcotics and alcohol), and recidivism is very common for addicts. W. Bush said that with the help of Reverend Billy Graham, and spending time at the Crawford Ranch in Texas, he was able to dry out and get sober and clean. So, likely it wasn't a vacation in Texas, it was likely an attempt to get sober and clean again.
The governor of a nearby state had his momma stuck in the hurricane Katrina flood. He was on a cell phone with her, and on day one said "don't worry, momma, help is on the way." On day two he said "don't worry, momma, help is on the way." But President W. Bush diverted emergency workers to other states, and prevented them from coming into Louisiana to help with the hurricane Katrina disaster. On day three....no more momma....she had been diabetic, and she died from lack of insulin and lack of food (diabetics must keep eating). She died. She could have been saved, but W. Bush was afraid that the al Qaeda was part of the rescue effort. At the time, I was in contact with the chief of the Canadian rescue team, which the chief said was the first rescue team to be allowed to enter Lousiana. I am the one who wrote about it, and now much of the world is aware that the Canadians beat the US rescue workers. Ice was sent in, to cool wounds and take down swelling, but W. Bush diverted the ice so it never arrived, assuming that the ice was for alcoholic beverages, and that the rescue teams, stranded in other states, needed the ice to make liquor drinks.
So,
love is not the only thing that we need. We also need to stop intoxication (narcotics and alcohol), and we need to stop being apathetic. It is not enough to love someone, we have to be stirred to action. We also need to stop paranoia. It was paranoia (and lies) that caused the United States to attack Iraq in the first place. Paranoia (and other mental illnesses) cause many other problems. W. Bush spent a great deal of money with new sonar in submarines, blasting sound in the ocean that if broadcast in Los Angeles, could be heard in Chicago (wow...that's far). It was in a layer of cold water that whales use to communicate (because it bounces two dimensionally so sound carries futher, blocked by thermal gradients). Mysteriously, whales (and other sea life) beached and their ear drums were broken and bloody, and they need hearing to find mates. They would not be able to reproduce. It was caused by this new sonar. Of course, the al Qaeda didn't have their own country, nor did they have submarines, so all of that expense and environmental damage was for nothing. Because they didn't announce their plans and operations, the whale damage was a mystery for quite some time.
When a political candidate is clearly out of his depth, and
completely unable to do his duty, he should not continue to seek power.
Even if he brags that he is humble, as W. Bush constantly did, we shouldn't assume that the ruler of the world is really humble.
It is one thing to tout love, then prove that you don't love. For example, the Christian religion is supposed to love all of God's children, yet we made war (thou shalt not kill) and torture camps.
