Hello to everyone. I have been silent for a while about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, waiting (against hope) for sanity to emerge to end the killing and oppression, and to find peace. The killing of Sheik Yassin has broken the silence. Of course his life is naturally precious as are the lives, equally so, of the thousands of innocent children, women and men, on both sides, slaughtered in this irrational, bestial conflict. Not just this, but I am even more sickened by the things men, conditioned as they are by a sick and oppressive society, do to one another as well as to women and people of homosexual orientation. So here is my voice, for what it is worth. If you prefer to get this as an attachment, please let me know.

What Have I Wrought?

I am Jehovah, I am Allah, I am Christ, I am God.
The free will I have given you does not include murder,
Does not include killing, hating, dominating.
Stop it.
In my Name you kill My children,
You are killing all My children.
Stop it.
I gave you Moses and Mohammed and Christ.
In return you give me rivers of blood running in gutters,
And shattered bodies, and shattered minds, and broken lives.
This you return for My Gifts.
Stop it.
You claim you are created in My Image.
In My Image!
Your bristling, hateful eyes, your raised and blasting guns,
Your bloodied bayonets are not in My Image.
Your streets of crying, bleeding children are not in My Image.
Your toll of vengeance is not My Image.
Vengeance is Mine alone, it is not yours.
Stop it.
Sodom I have destroyed,
Gomorrah I have destroyed.
I sent you the flood and the plagues
And still you do not learn
What have I wrought?
Stop it, I say!
I sent you Saints and sages, true martyrs of love and brotherhood.
And still you do not hear.
Hear this, Stop It.
In My Name you kill.
In My Name you crush homes,
In My Name you seize the fertile hills and fruitful plains,
And set up walls to seal your gains.
In My Name you blow up buses and bodies of children on their way to school
. And women and men on their way to work and Shul.,
In My Name you steal their land and pride and hope,
And rope them into sewered, sweaty, stinking slums.
In My Name you defame my children and claim false superiority.
None of you may use My Name for such crimes and cruelties.
Stop it, I Say. I Say Stop It!
You who sit in the seats of power,
That sits upon pillars of fear and hate and stolen wealth and stealth,
You who claim My Name for your right to rule,
You may not use My Name.
Stop it.
To all My children I have given dominion
To share the wealth of the Universe.
I alone own its riches, you do not!
I have given you these to care for, to share and enjoy
It all, and one another.
Instead, in My Name, you steal and horde and claim the right
To lord it over all My children.
I refute you this right, I withdraw My Name.
Stop it. Stop it.
You rule and kill and sanctify the crime and blood
In churches and temples and mosques,
And pray to pass through the Gate of Heaven.
For this you will not pass through the Gate of Heaven,
But for this you will be swallowed into the mouth of hell.
Even as you live you know hell, in your dreams, your mirrors,
In the moments you seek to rest, you see the mouth of hell,
You feel the sting of guilt.
You try to wash away the torment with jokes and drinking,
And drugs and blaming, and beating
And desperate mutual mouthing of self-righteousness,
And with paltry charities.
You may not use My name to cleanse these sins.
Stop the crimes, stop the killing, stop the hate.

You who use My Name to usurp woman’s power over her life and body,
Gifts which I alone have given her, to force her to bring forth
The issue of her womb, no matter how ill conceived,
No matter how tortured, unwanted, unloved it may be,
Yet turn your back with callous disregard for this new other of My children,
For the world cluttered with the pain of unclaimed children,
You may not use My Name for this heinous irresponsibility.
Stop it.
You may invoke My Love to love and care for every child, every mother,
Every father if he be known, Though the child may be of difference, it is My child,
Therefore your charge. You are charged to care for every child, every
cub, and cricket, every blade and glade of grass and tree, every hill and
stream and ocean and every space of air.
These are my Gifts and for these you are charged to care.
You will not use My Name to dictate usage nor abandon any of My Gifts.
Stop it.

And to those who love their self same kind in intimacy I have given
the Gift of Love,
Even as I have given the Gift of Love to all of you, to heal the pain of abuse,
The pain of loneliness, isolation and vilification <.br> These too are My children and all you countless rest will not deny them
The Gift of Love and the right of law and survival.
As I give this Gift of Love and Law
To the vastly more numbers of you,
the blessing of marriage that I have also given you
Can never be in jeopardy when you assert self confidence in what I Made you.
Dare to listen to and cherish your beloved against your selfish compulsions,
the only true enemy of marriage and happiness.

You may invoke My Name to Love and care;
You may not use My Name to deny and persecute.

I am Jehovah, Allah, Christ. I am the Word, your God.
And the Word is Stop it!