Brilliant song!

--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > > You claimed things are going along just perfectly, that everyone 
> > > gets what they "deserve," and that that's karma, baby.  Angela 
> > > asked, quite reasonably, if you then believed that children that 
> > > suffered horrible fates were getting what they deserve.
> > 
> > This inherent cruelty and victimizing the victim is really at the 
> > core of karmic theory.  Since no one experiences karmic law 
> > directly, it is another dusty old theory from a culture who didn't 
> > even understand the circulation of blood. (hint: the heart is key)
> 
> Bruce Cockburn, a strong Christian, on this subject:
> 
> What's been done in the name of Jesus?
> What's been done in the name of Buddha?
> What's been done in the name of Islam?
> What's been done in the name of man?
> What's been done in the name of liberation?
> And in the name of civilization?
> And in the name of race?
> And in the name of peace?
> 
>     Everybody
>     Loves to see
>     Justice done
>     On somebody else
> 
> Can you tell me how much bleeding
> It takes to fill a word with meaning?
> And how much, how much death
> It takes to give a slogan breath?
> And how much, how much, how much flame
> Gives light to a name
> For the hollow darkness
> In which nations dress?
> 
>     Everybody
>     Loves to see
>     Justice done
>     On somebody else
> 
> Everybody's seen the things they've seen
> We all have to live with what we've been
> When they say charity begins at home
> They're not just talking about a toilet and a telephone
> Got to search the silence of the soul's wild places
> For a voice that can cross the spaces
> These definitions that we love create --
> These names for heaven, hero, tribe and state
> 
>     Everybody
>     Loves to see
>     Justice done
>     On somebody else
>


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