The Pope and Hypocrisy

[MISSDem]

How can they talk about the sanctity of life and stand by as this happens?


President Bush and other world leaders are honoring John Paul II in a way that completely misunderstands his message. We pay him no tribute if we lower our flags to half-staff and send a grand presidential delegation to his funeral, when at the same time we avert our eyes as villagers are slaughtered and mutilated in the genocide unfolding in Darfur.

The message of the pope's ministry was about standing up to evil, not about holding grand funerals.

"Throughout the West, John Paul's witness reminded us of our obligation to build a culture of life in which the strong protect the weak," Mr. Bush said. Well, what about that reminder? What kind of a "culture of life" is it that allows us to shrug as Sudanese soldiers heave children onto bonfires?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/opinion/06kristof.html?hp

[The White Tree]

1. What can we do?

When I read this Op-Ed this morning it, as these always do, wrenched my heart, and again I made a pledge to myself not to continue to sit idly by and do nothing while this happens.

Starting today I will be writing the president, senators, representatives. I will be asking my church leaders and anyone else I can think of to become aware of this and try to put pressure on our government to act on this and stop it.

I ask the same of any of you who read this. If you think this is a worthy cause please get involved in having a voice in it as well. I am not the type of person who can easily lead others and I don't want to try, but I feel a moral obligation to try to ask. According to this Op-Ed, estimates are that 300,000 people have died. Many in ways that are at least as brutal as anything that ever occurred in Iraq.

I don't know what can be done to stop it. I am not sure I know what the right thing to do is. I just feel like I have to try to do something.

If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

[Gildor Inglorion]

2. We can do very little, actually....

Sudan isn't sitting on top of an ocean of oil. Therefore, the suffering of its people is relatively meaningless to the current criminal oligarchy/kleptocracy syndicate running the United States of America.