Killing Brothers

Reconciliation is tough and in the wake of happening in the media, our world, and the generalized breakdown of society as a whole it has only become harder. This is due, in part, to the unfortunate dust that has never settled in our relationships with our brothers. We need only look at Genesis 4 to see how God feels about the murdering of the people whom we were supposed to be taking into our homes and dining with. Cain was not only cursed to permanent unreconciliable death work to the ground for plants but was forever doomed to never experience a live-giving community as a stranger and a wanderer forever. To me, that is a curse far more than I can bear, as it was for Cain. 

But this is the curse we are asking for when we fail to inhibit justice, and in fact, only bring death to the relationships with those who are supposed to be eating with us at our table. This is already what's happening with the crops in America's soil, and as such the stuff you hear about crops having gradually de-escalating nutritional value is 100% deserved. This is why I'm against abortion, stem cell research, and in more general terms, violence specific to races. 

Yet there is an even deeper thing happening here, we are failing to take responsibility, systemically, to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. This has caused more illness, death, and the speed of entropy to take place far more aggressively in our culture than others. You want to know why Italians live forever? Because they take time to eat dinner around a table with their multi-generational homes. Why is it that French people look so much younger than Americans? Or Asians for that matter? Sure they have different facial and bone structures, but I think it's because they are getting the most out of their life-giving relationships and taking responsibility to honor their fathers and mothers. 

Is putting the group of people who are old and disabled into a home where you visit them twice a month truly honoring? Absolutely not. People are talking about "disadvantaged groups" and ensuring we're not staying silent toward the injustices against them, I'm going to stand up for the elders of our generation. It's horrible what we do to them if you were to reverse time and put them in the shoes of a child in a home you would define it as "neglect". It's horrible. This is a problem we only have in America, and people wonder why our average age of death is dropping. 

If you really want to learn about Entropy, learn it from the master Himself. Psalm 90 is a great starting point, but an entire study on how slowly everything eroded for the Israelites during their trek through the Desert would be good too. 

Quit killing brothers and fathers and mothers. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Capeesh?