Yes, about the Albanians in Kosovo. About the Jews in Germany.
I was thinking more about the native peoples of America.
Oh.
Oh, indeed. Wiping out a people is wiping out a people, whether at Auschwitz or at Wounded
Knee
As You have observed before.
As I have observed before.
Yet if we are all part of the same body, what if I decide that something or someone is a
“cancer?” How do I deal with that? That’s what I am asking here.
You might attempt to heal the cancer.
How do I do that?
You could try love.
But some things and some people don’t respond to love. Sometimes healing a cancer means
killing it, getting it out of the body. It is the body we are trying to heal, not the cancer.
What if the body doesn’t need healing?
What?
Always you are justifying cruelty to others, even the killing of others, as a means of surviving,
yourself. Yet this takes us back to another question, another issue. I spoke before about the
second-most dangerous idea human beings hold. Now, let’s close the circle here. What do
you imagine will happen to you if you do not get rid of this cancer you are talking about?
I will die.
And so to avoid dying, you cut the cancer out. It is a matter of survival.
Exactly.
And that is the same reason that people kill other people, wipe out whole groups of other
people, displace entire populations and ethnic minorities. They think that they must do so,
that it is a matter of their very survival.
Yes.
Yet I tell you this: there is nothing that you have to do to survive. Your survival is guaranteed.
You always have been, are now, and always will be, world without end.
Your survival is a fact, not a hope. A reality, not a promise. Therefore, everything you have
been doing in order to “survive” has been unnecessary. You have been creating a living hell