Love That Man Murtha

I was just watching Congressman Murtha on The Situation Room. It is really hard to see this guy as a fast talking politician. He is so straightforward, such a straight shooter that you really have to marvel at the Republicans for attacking him personally. What were they thinking? I guess it was their typical knee-jerk reaction to any critic. Let's do a little character assassination.

Let's just step back from Murtha and the war and look at the bigger political picture. America is finally seeing Bush and his cronies for what they are, a talking machine with little substance. It's like the emperor's new clothes, this guy's got nothin'. I wonder what took everyone so long?

Cheney comes out of his bunker to bash anyone who dares to criticize the Bush policies, sneering the whole time. You're hurting our troops, giving comfort to the enemy, he says. No, what we are doing is showing the enemy that we live in a democracy and we can disagree with each other and still be united in our fight against religious fanatics. President Bush does not equal the US of A. You can criticize the President while still being a patriot. If the right-wing felt so strongly about it, why did they spend eight years tearing down Clinton?

Let's also look at the growing Jack Abramoff scandal. Today we see one of his cronies pleading guilty and agreeing to testify against his former friend. I can't wait to see this scandal unfold completely. You know that Tom DeLay and Ralph Reed are right in the middle of it. The hypocrisy of these guys is just beyond belief.

More scales will soon be falling from our eyes. What's left to see in the contiuing saga of Operation Desert Mask? Much more I would wager.

We Are All God

Most evolutionary theories posit that all life began with a single cell. That we all evolved from that cell into what we are today. It took millions of years, but eventually we all became complex creatures living in a very complex world.

Now what if that one cell was actually God? What if God is not a being as we know it, but a giant entity that encompasses all of us? What if the light of God is in each and every one of us? Passed on with the gift of life???

Each time we help our fellow man, we lift someone up, those are God's hands doing it? Every time we achieve great things, that is God in action.

I know it sounds like a strange concept, but how else can God really manifest him/herself but through our actions? There are the wonders of nature, of course, but that could be just another part of what God became.

Horrible things happen all the time, that could be God too. No one wants to believe that God could be responsible for evil, violence, disease and the wrath of nature. But who's to say that God sees these things as bad? Maybe in the greater scheme of things they are not.

Maybe God is just that divine spark in everything, moving mankind and the universe forward? Maybe it is what we call the life force?

One part of this theory would have to be that there is some kind of a plan in all this and that this journey we call life is not just a series of random events not leading us anywhere. I think we all need to believe in a higher purpose, something greater than ourselves. After all, we are the sum of our (God's) parts.