Who Killed Tom Fox, Quaker killed in Iraq, March 10
Bob Burnett writing on Daily Kos, reference below.
Tom Fox's last post on his blog before he was kidnapped.
"If I understand the message of God, his response to that question is that we are to take part in the creation of the Peaceable Realm of God. As I survey the landscape here in Iraq, dehumanization seems to be the operative means of relating to each other. We are here to root out all aspects of dehumanization that exists within us. We are here to stand with those being dehumanized by oppressors and stand firm against that dehumanization. We are here to stop people, including ourselves, from dehumanizing any of God's children, no matter how much they dehumanize their own souls."
Tom told his friends that if he was captured or killed they should not take revenge on those responsible.
Who killed Tom Fox? Why and what's the reason for?
Out here on the radical fringe of Christianity, there are those of us who believe that there are worse things than being killed standing up for what you believe in. We feel that it's better to honor our personal integrity, our relationship with the divine, than to play it safe.
Out here on the edge, there are those of us who believe that Jesus didn't suffer just one time all those years ago up on a lonely cross. We feel that Jesus dies in every generation, whenever good folks stand up for righteousness. This Jesus perished in the Holocaust and in the collapse of the Twin Towers. This Jesus expired when Tom Fox was tortured and shot. This Jesus dies over and over until human kind gets that we have to learn to live together in peace and justice.
That's why Tom Fox died. That's the reason for.
Bob Burnett is a Berkeley writer and Quaker activist. He can be reached at bobburnett@comcast.net
Tom Fox's last post on his blog before he was kidnapped.
"If I understand the message of God, his response to that question is that we are to take part in the creation of the Peaceable Realm of God. As I survey the landscape here in Iraq, dehumanization seems to be the operative means of relating to each other. We are here to root out all aspects of dehumanization that exists within us. We are here to stand with those being dehumanized by oppressors and stand firm against that dehumanization. We are here to stop people, including ourselves, from dehumanizing any of God's children, no matter how much they dehumanize their own souls."
Tom told his friends that if he was captured or killed they should not take revenge on those responsible.
Who killed Tom Fox? Why and what's the reason for?
Out here on the radical fringe of Christianity, there are those of us who believe that there are worse things than being killed standing up for what you believe in. We feel that it's better to honor our personal integrity, our relationship with the divine, than to play it safe.
Out here on the edge, there are those of us who believe that Jesus didn't suffer just one time all those years ago up on a lonely cross. We feel that Jesus dies in every generation, whenever good folks stand up for righteousness. This Jesus perished in the Holocaust and in the collapse of the Twin Towers. This Jesus expired when Tom Fox was tortured and shot. This Jesus dies over and over until human kind gets that we have to learn to live together in peace and justice.
That's why Tom Fox died. That's the reason for.
Bob Burnett is a Berkeley writer and Quaker activist. He can be reached at bobburnett@comcast.net
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