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The world is outraged by the actions of terrorist groups like ISIS and others. We abhor the actions of these groups as we witness most of us through the media; deaths, burning, decapitation, the results of torture and the like. They kidnapped children and brainwash them and use them as human shields and suicide bombers. They persecute humanity for their religious beliefs that is not their sickness of spirituality. They force girl child at virtually any age to be a slave for themselves in the most insidious and corrupt manner destroying dignity and the most sacredness of a female, her virginity. Their actions are evil in the blackness of the hole evil lurks from, for this evil has no heart or conscience for it knows not God. We in society are in agreement on this issue.

The world in its double standard of belief and justice is flawed at best. Our vision is clouded by how we view our standard of judgement. We do not see the fault of our thinking not to help the refugees. Let them suffer the regimes of repressive governments, war, religious oppression. It’s OK to let them suffer rejection, hatred, prejudice, and our judgment. We do not care if they are living in inhumane conditions of squalor, the dignity of privacy and bathrooms. The stench is over powering and yes, there is no garbage pick-up. Children need to be children. The dignity to seek help in the humblest of ways for they left basically their whole life to seek refuge for themselves and their children. Their food, health care and water is dependent on governments letting in aide. Babies need their milk on their demand as we all well know. The refugees did not take the arduous journey on boats overloaded and barley sea worthy with their children to hurt anyone. They seek freedoms we all want for ourselves and our families especially their children. War disrupted their lives not a hidden and devious motive. How can we condemn terrorists and their actions and justify our own as righteous?

We have failed as Christians to equate their suffering to Our Lord who suffered for us to set us free. We impose the same sufferings of Christ on the suffering refugees’ rejection, hatred, prejudice and the like. We bare false witness against them as a group and individuals because of race and religion. We tell stories and post them with untruths and at times from some, who create these misnomers. We still have not shaken off the saying “not in my backyard.” One of our number one excuse of why not taking in the refugees especially coming from the states we have our own suffering and in need of help.

This is a TEST we are failing; we are longer on a slippery slope we are on a downward spiral. I live in India and live among some Muslims and talk with them and not one ever rejected me for my crucifix I wear or for being an American. We shop in a Muslim town at times. I witness and spoke to Muslim children who attend Catholic Schools and mothers who walk them to school.

BEWARE world your slip is showing it is called anger. If we do not reverse how we view life in fairness and truth; the mercy, we seek may become our nemesis, for mercy we refused will cut us off from the shoot of all mercy Jesus Christ.

LAST THOUGHT: Terrorist come after the flesh in the destruction of human life by murder, decapitation, torture, and the like and we cannot hardly digest these atrocities. However, as civilized people of society their actions are unthinkable. We do not equate hate, anger, bearing false witness, rejection and the like as murder but Our Lord tells us that there is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law both equally condemnable sins. The 5th commandment is…

You shall not kill.

You have heard that it was said to the men of old, "You shall not kill: and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment." But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment.

©Linda Mary Liotino ME A SERVANT OF CHRIST MISSION 2016