"The question has been asked whether poverty is enough to trigger such relentless massacres that we see in the Northeast. The answer is simple: No. But without poverty, it cannot stand for long. The rich and powerful with perverse education exploit and indoctrinate the poor. Nowhere in the opulent world do we see such sustained attack fuelled by belief. In Spain, we had the Basque separatists. We also had the case of Northern Ireland, but they were fuelled by the rich but they were purely political. They yielded to political settlements. But where politics masks faith, like in the Middle East, settlement cannot come from the genius of man. That is why the hardest gift to erase is what the takers see as the bread of life. It is hard to recruit a well-fed man to fight for a cause. To recruit, give the poor bread, and to sustain them, give them bread of life. The horror they inflict with deaths and fear reminds one of the short line of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl about the place of God in all of this human suffering, which he experienced during the First World War. He wrote, “The silence of God/ I drink from spring in the forest.” My question is, shall we eat bread to live or the bread of life to die?"Sam Omatseye
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:58:48 +0000
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