All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace John Lennon
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As I am very,very,very fond of saying in this blog "when it comes to claims of spiritual motivation…… follow the money"
This applies whether it's the collections, the stipends, the guru donations, the Islamic 'charity' donations, etc. It particularly applies in the present crises over child abuse within religious institutions.
It is one thing for fine words and sermons about the shame and guilt, quite another thing when you 'follow the money trail'.
In New York it is quite amazing how the fine sermon words are lost within the maze of convoluted and contradictory action taken to immunise compensation claims from victims. You can see what I mean if you read this article HERE
It was well said by Christ "by their fruits you will know them".
How sad, how irreconcilably sad, to be seeing such self-destruction of a channel of faith on such a large scale.
