Wonderful morning to write about those who kill in the name of a god.

Pick a god, any god and somewhere in the story line of history there is either sacrifice, murder, or hostility towards life. Usually the life of those not bowing down to the ‘god’ in question.

Today the thought is of how Christians killed Muslims in the Crusades. And then now where Muslims kill Christians. And then there are the Muslims killing Jews and Jews killing Muslims.

Is it all horror and disbelief that humans kill in the name of a god? Absolutely not. Humans kill for sport, fun, anger, hate, money, sex, food, water, spices. Humans are the perfectly designed biological machine with the primary goal of killing.

You’re not a killer? Ha! Yes you are. For those tofu eating Buddha following folks, you don’t remember how your cotton was grown for your garments, or the leather on your saddles came from something that once bleated, mooed, or even swam in the water.

You’re all killers. And yes, while you can’t help it because that is the environment you’re all placed in, a giant world of kill and be killed, some of you are more advanced to find a good reason for killing others. Some even think a god will reward you for your blood lust.

Abortion.

Murder.

Suicide.

War.

Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.

(silence as a bird outside is thinking about bugs to eat)

How primitive and ignorant humans are regarding life and death.

Life cannot be killed. Life cannot be taken. Life is in a small way like energy and mass. It can be converted, changed. Life belongs to God as God is life. And the real question then is, why do humans try to kill God?

There is a difference when you kill a bug by accident or purpose. There is a difference when you accidently run over your child with a car versus killing them in the womb.

There is a difference when killing a cow for food or shooting it for sport.

There is a difference when a Muslim kills a Christian in self defense instead of killing them because the Christian is inside a church praying…

God is trying to remind humans of what they are and who they are, it’s the humans who choose to forget.

And what can you do to remember? Easy. Give thanks to God for absolutely everything, not pretend a god told you to kill something.