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- 우리 모두는 형제들입니다....
** Important to Jesus religion are "not formality of religion but content," "not perfunctory justice but love," "not theory but practice." **예수종교에게 중요한 것은 "종교의형식이 아니고 내용이고," "형식적정의가 아니라 사랑이다." "이론이 아니고 실천이다."
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It is near impossible to live according to the teaching of ‘the Sermon on the Mount’ (Matthew Chapter 6,7).
It is because ‘living according to the Sermon on the Mount’ itself is too difficult and because it is hard to practice without one’s loss.
For 2000 history of Christianity, many sorts of theology have been established and developed, but then have been stingy indeed in applying to each person’s life the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount, one of most important in Christianity divinity.
For us who live modern days, the most hesitant to put into practice and still hot subjects are ‘the way of nonviolence,’ ‘the way of human love,’ ‘the way of peacemaking,’.... In a word, the Sermon on the Mount suggests ‘the way to human salvation,’ which tends to appear as still a hot theme.
The most grievous separation in Christianity is not separation of Catholic and Protestant, but separation of religion and politics.
There are many people who think the life and teaching of Jesus is only fit for Sunday sermons and Christmas stories, but that it can never be used in a political sense.
A prevailing thinking was that one must interpret Jesus’ teaching only spiritually(?), irrespective of politics, to be a pious religionist.
However, a single power only by a person doesn’t maintain peace by modern times. If a person want a peaceful public order personally, the person’s own peace cannot exist if the circumstances don’t cooperate. This is a situation in modern times.
Responsive to the terror that America just had on September 11, 90% of Americans want revenge for the sake of America’s pride. 83% favor a solution to revenge even if war involves. Not only America, but also such countries as Russia, Britain, France, Australia, even Korea are announcing their governments’ trends to the public through the media, saying ‘We share or support the revenge of America.’
Among those who make a resolution of revenge and war of blood, there would be politicians, religionists, and priests and ministers who would pray holding hands of people. I ask a question.
What is the prayer for?
Who is the prayer for?
Beyond the victory of America, there should be numerous loss of lives in Afghanistan.
Terror is bad, real bad.
But even worse is war.
What we must have in mind is, there are many contradictions hidden in the international order that depend on ‘Peace by Force’ and ‘Justice by Force.’ We must know, there are many minor powers’ or minority races’ unvented clots of grudges in those ‘Peace by Force,’ ‘Justice by Force’ and ‘order by Big Powers.’
Conflict of blood between Palestinian autonomy and Israel which has been continued since 1945 and American Authority that unconditionally favored Israel on every occasion, The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan from 1979 through early 1980, The Persian Gulf War(1990~1991), The Civil War in Yugoslavia(1991-1995) that coined the new brutal word, Ethnic Cleansing, unceasing wars for independence in Eastern European Countries, small and big civil wars in the African continent.... Besides, countless bloodshed collisions have been on the earth even after 1980. In each of these wars, an innumerable number of people used to be murdered without reason.
At those times as well, were such countries as Korea, America, Russia, Britain, France and Australia enraged as this time? Were all the people, nay, the whole world seething with anger as this time?!
In many Local wars after 1980, there have been not only the countries’ problems but also big powers’ interests involved before the wars began.
Why then?!
How calm and unagitated the world opinions were!
Weren’t leaders of each nation standing on the fence of the international situation!
In what action, what attitude and what prayer were the religionists wailing!
At those times, all of them remained as if mere onlookers.
But why is all the world seething in agitation only on this 9.11 Terror in America? Why should Korea too take the initiative on the ‘day of mourning’ which the president in America proposed to their nation in commemoration of victims in the terror?!
In big or small wars in the global village in last 20 years, the loss of lives are more than 100 times as many as the victims in the terror in America that happened last September 11. Ravages of war in Afghanistan 20 years ago(1979~early1980) had more than 100 million Afghanistan refugees only on the border of Iran.
The people who used to be silent on previous occasions in other countries, why do they now wring their hearts only on the terror in America?! If their attitudes are out of pure humanism, why didn’t they express their mourning evenly and fairly toward various nations, but why only toward America?!
I wouldn’t like to continue this saying. I really wouldn’t.
But, like it or not, this is the reality of modern society.
The modern society is finding the biggest religion in the mystical phenomenon of ‘economy’ and making ‘money’ the greatest god.
The reason the whole world is dumbfounded and enraged in front of the terror America encountered is because economic and diplomatic issues of each country are affected the most. News on TV and newspapers are busy reporting most parts of the world’s economy market are staggering here and there after the terror in America. A tremendous drop in world stock market, a sharp rise in price of gold and crude oil, emergency in export businesses... It is virtually a warfare without war.
For the sake of profits, there was no classification between America, Soviet(Russia), Britain, France, Australia, Japan, etc.. It is these powers that clapped their hands and cheered to the retaliation of blood by America. Russia have already had the terror of 280 people being killed with the explosion of a building in Moscow a few years ago. Britain, France, Australia and Japan also have no idea of when the sparks from the fire might be at them. In order to subsist in the international society, each nation had to adapt to ‘the order by power.’ Under this law, powerful countries have pursued only their own profits.
Representatively, Soviet invasion upon the Eastern Europe, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979 through early 1980, the Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina, an unceasing policy of discrimination against Aberdeen Native Australians by the government of Australia who boasts of its advanced welfare state, conflict between Great Britain and Ireland,... Like these, there has been an endless ‘policy of profit-seeking’ by big powers.
Until 1940, there has been a prevailing policy of imperialism by big powers. In the aftermath, most of the Middle East was under the colonial rule of Britain and France.
In such circumstances, president Putin of Russia and other powers as well totally disregard their used-to-be brutalities over their victim countries to stand for only firm retaliatory policy against terrors shown on the surface. And they are cheering for America who resolves to take revenge of blood.
During Clinton presidency in America, Clinton administration conducted the policy to protect teenagers, proclaiming the ‘War on Smoking.’ But then, as U.S. tobacco industry was inflicted upon by the policy to protect its own people, the Clinton Administration gave trade pressure to South Eastern Asian countries into buying American tobacco in the interest of American businesses. After all, it was Clinton Administration’s policy of the ‘War on Smoking’ to protect the American people and businesses, only to victimize the South Eastern and especially Korean teenagers.
International society is the ‘society of power.’
This is reality.
When the terror in America occurred, the whole world was consternated. But the folks in the Palestinian autonomy took to the streets and shouted hurrahs. What does these folks’ hurrah mean?
Are they animals?
Or devils?
No, they are just the same as us humans.
Afghanistan folks too see America and Russia totally as foes. When our media in Korea were broadcasting in unconditional favor of America’s position, the New York Times said the voice of reflection, ‘It is the time of reviewing the deep-rooted anti-Americanism’ prior to retaliation through war. This is democracy.
Even though 83% of the people is wanting the war calling for blood, the society voicing bravely some diverse contrary opinions on the other side is democracy.
Right now, I see a group of entertainers campaigning in the public advertisement on TV. It is in the middle of ‘U.N.’s movement to help the children in the world’ by UNICEF(United Nations Fund for children). “Our children are the actors and actresses of the world in the future. Let us grow children bright and healthy without discrimination between yours and mine for the world in the future.” Aren’t there any children in such parts of the world as Afghanistan, Yugoslavia and Serbia, Africa,...?
Here, what we should first care about are:
1) The song ‘We Are The World’ American entertainers made in the 1980s - here, how far are the limits of ‘We’?
2) British entertainers made the song ‘Do They Know Christmas?’ for the children who are dying in hunger due to war and drought in Ethiopia and other African regions. Whom is it for?
3) There is a sharp difference in worth and meaning between a lump of bread given to the full and a lump of bread given to the hungry.
4) Who are the most serious victims in war are women and children.
The politicians, broadcasters and religionists who used to be indifferent when children and women were famished, hurt and being dying in wars in the other regions.
Why?!
Why only right now, that they should be in so extraordinary concern and fuss?!
I repeat.