WHAT
GOD HATH WROUGHT
"What God hath wrought."
It's a verse from the Book of Numbers (23:23) in that strange
and foreign and surely un-American book which Jews and Christians
supposedly live by.
WHAT GOD HATH WROUGHT
"Come see what God hath
wrought."
But this? Don't
blaspheme--or God will send you someplace to burn forever. God
didn't create these United States: united in
greed and hatred of the poor and xenophobic arrogance.
Not these United States, violent and murderous,
where everybody has a gun and the nation itself owns more weapons of
destruction than all the rest of the world in all of human history.
God isn't responsible
for these United States. And you can't blame
his son--the un-American known as Jesus--for what we have
wrought. Jesus told us--told even the Americans--to love one
another: to take care of the poor, not to steal, not to kill.
"What God hath wrought."
God didn't make this. What we have wrought is
not God's work: not what any god made or created or
designed. We have wrought iron--and
destruction, and war. God wrought love--and
life, and peace.
And while I'm at it: God
didn't make the North America than Americans inhabit today. God
didn't make those refuse-concealing mountains in New Jersey--or the
Love Canal in New York. God didn't make those topless mountains
in eastern Kentucky, either, or the valleys full of poisoned landfill
between them. God didn't make America's polluted and poisonous
rivers or the air we can't safely breathe. God didn't
make the poisonous pesticides we use to put on the food we eat, or
the poor deformed beasts that we eat pretending it is the meat of
cattle and chickens.
"What God hath wrought."
False accusation is the sin called calumny, or slander. We
are the guilty ones. This
world is our doing: what we have wrought. And
yes, it includes our perverse and unpolitic politicians and their
supporters.
Bert
Hornback
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