Reply #64: Thanks for posting this. It's beautiful. Made me cry...this "occupation" [View All]

[WiseButAngrySara]

(bloody illegal, immoral WAR) has got to end!


We may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
And her ways are ways of gentleness, and all her paths are peace.

edited to add following when I realized thatI hadn't addressed the issue of metaphor, which I had done in a previous post...

"How do we know that the Jihad's original intent was a metaphor which was misinterpreted by fanatical followers, just like the Crusades? All of the Christian Hymns I quoted from are examples of a Holy War, which is exactly what the Jihad is, IMHO."

So much of "true" Religion is metaphorical, and meant to be. The extremeists always take it to be the literal truth of God, IMHO.