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What you say is both rationally cogent and utterly true Jim. I'm a UK citizen, but I have relatives in the US who are Christian's and Trump acolytes. I don't understand how they can't see the truth that you articulate with such economy and wisdom. It seems that the God of this world has blinded their eyes.

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Dear Jim,

I wrote the following in response to the shooting at the Topsmarket in Buffalo.

With What are we lit?

Paul R Nevergold

With what are we lit?

The bitter bile of hate

Which was morphed from fear

Until we are not recognized

By those who held us dear?

Or is it love and wonder

That motivates our souls?

That we reach out to others

And share our common goals.

The choice is always ours

whether to choose love or hate.

The longer we are on each road

can literally seal our fate.

I think many of us are in between

Choosing one road then the other.

Soaring, sinking, soaring

As we navigate life’s tether.

Fear is the major demon

that haunts our human race

and keeps us from seeing

humanity in another’s face.

“Be not afraid”

Jesus told us seven times.

Yet fear it is that drives us

To commit horrendous crimes.

Fear of want morphs into greed

And other sins as deadly

Which cannot satisfy our wants

But leave us fraught and lonely.

I’m tempted to continue with

The other deadly sins

But I hope you’ve got the point,

It’s fear that does us in.

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