Clean It Up

Churches, Christianity, Life – in-ed if AC, A See clean it up – ow fee-d.

Join a new Church.  In-ed will be help clean it up.

Join Christianity.  In-ed will be help clean it up.

Come into this World.  In-ed will be help clean it up.

Not my responsibility.  Proximity is useful for that.  On the other side of the world, as not my problem is not all pretty – we are a nation of immigrants.

We don’t all agree on what needs to be cleaned up and what doesn’t.  If we pay tax dollars but don’t fight injustice, we get injustice empowered by our dime.  If one doesn’t go to school, join Congress and change the system – then we have chosen or been prevented by action and inaction from cleaning up the system.  We get what we turn up is not all pretty and there is some truth to that.

If I don’t make a judgment about something.  Others have potential to make judgments about it.  Don’t condemn and don’t judge are both valuable – I do think they get mixed at times.

Look at a building – wonder if there are structural issues with it.  If you say something, you might prevent someone more skilled from looking at and saying something about that building.  Some new structures like suspension bridges defy physics, which might make me divest from thoughts of stable or unstable.  Don’t judge is useful, lots of time, money, and effort, potentially just to check if something is wrong.  Yet I am also glad people speak up when they don’t know.  To a certain level – checked 20 times a day might be a lucrative business on the tax payer dime.

Sometimes judgment might lead to people wrongly accused of crimes based on incomplete comprehension.  Divestment from judgment is useful, but might not be all crime reduced.  Considering jail systems in parts of the world are unjust at times, deaths could occur, and dying at the hands of injustice because of our judgment kind of feels like condemnation.

I agree with The Pope on somethings.  I am generally Pro Life – there are more complex cases (like if you were having children around Nazis and the Catholic Church wasn’t running to save you), I also agree that in a society that has injustice we are called to respect “Without sin cast the first stone”, I realize in more extreme cases this is called into question and thus for better or worse we weigh – guy on the battlefield about to shoot you shoot back in my opinion – though I would prefer not to turn up eye for an eye.  We also time, how far away a threat is matter, more time to disable without using violence should always be the preferred method.  Keep in mind I use the term we as humanity – though some in humanity may never use violence, or might always use it.  Years of waiting followed by a lethal concoction of drugs on display for others might not be seen as violent by some – I personally see it a bit as cruel and unusual punishment – yet time might give a chance for injustices and truth to flush out.  Golden Rule I would not want it done to my children, so how do we inspire a world where what leads to it never happens?