WOLVES WALK WITH YOU BY DAY, WITH FACES LIKE MEN.
SEEK THE DARK TRUTH AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THE MOON CURSED.
you have been found!!!
Yes, the congregation should stand against genocide, at the very least. UUs used to actually do something about world trauma, especially when their own governments were funding massacres and the erasure of marginalized nationalities. We come from a rich history of antifascist action. Now, we just let the world's hurt buzz on in the background, and we ignore it, and we ask the congregation to ignore it, and we pretend to feel connected to nature while the unending electronic drone of war planes tortures us. There are times for the pondering of questions without answers like, "Is there a god?" And then there are real, definite, answers, like "Is it raining now?" Yes. "Is the Palestinian girl crying?" Yes. "Should a religious community who claims to believe in 'the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all' 'take a unified stance' on the murder of civilians in another country?" YES! I have signed protests and pleas and letters in the foyer of UCM. Asking to get a man off death row in another country. Dealings with intricate problems which THIS UU CHURCH asked me to take a stance on. Why now, when each of us has the ability to see aid trucks decimated, hospitals annihilated, historical monuments destroyed, and human children torn to pieces, do we say, 'ah well... can we really take a stance on this?' Why now do we call this a "war in Gaza and Israel"? Call it what it is, and take a stance, and ask others to take a stance, or be left to the history of communities who did nothing to help.