The fight against despair
by Robert Thompson
(translated by the author)
I am a committed practising Catholic
Christian with very clear views on the political problems which we have
to face in the modern world. In the main, these difficulties
arise from the way in which political extremists have managed to take
over the feelings of ill-educated persons who only have a very vague
idea of the religious traditions from which they come. This
explains the fear of the other, and the hatred arising from it, which
(sadly) we see all around us. It is our duty (for all of us)
to fight against not only this hatred, but also the fear from which it
arises.
We should all fight this battle against the
attempts by extremists such as Mr George W. Bush, Mr Ariel
Sharon and Mr Oussama bin Laden to polarise our fears and our
hatreds around the gulf which they encourage between the various
families of the spiritual descendants of Abraham, whether they
be Jewish, Christian or Muslim.
Mr Bush wishes to gather support for his
plans for financial domination a coalition of people who claim to
be (according to what he himself says) Jewish and Christian
traditions to crush the Muslim who hold the most substantial oil
reserves. However, to do this, he has first to persuade
therm to abandon the fundamental principles of the religious
currents from which they believe themselves to come. By his
repeated calls to the greed of individuals, his r
