Peace on Earth. It starts with me.

It doesn’t matter what your religion is. If it condones violence of any kind, intolerance of others because of their beliefs, or their color, or their lifestyle, your religion is a failure. It has not improved the world, or your life or anyone’s life in any way. If you’re wondering why, you need to think about it for awhile.

This contains a very very graphic video of a woman being attacked, killed, mutilated and burned because someone accused her – ACCUSED HER – of burning a Quran. The police were willing to take her to a nearby police station but could not contain the mob. At the very end of the video, the text says that a court ruled that she had not burned a Quran.

The Quran is a book. Pieces of paper with printing on it. It contains ideas that do not go away if the book is destroyed. If you think that someone destroying such a thing is just cause for killing them, you are wrong. You will always be wrong.

If you feel, as we all feel from time to time, that you can’t make a difference, take note that 17,721 people have raised $719,199 so far in two days for eleven families immigrating from Syria, through the fine community effort of Humans of New York. Most of those donations are small and heart-felt and will make a difference in many lives.

Let peace and goodness start with you.

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One Response to Peace on Earth. It starts with me.

  1. Betty Frezon says:

    Mary Beth beautifully expressed. All people need to love themselves before they can love others. Simple thought.

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