In 2001, there was no space odyssey

In 2001, there was no space odyssey.
There was only hatred's idiocy.

Don't be lost in the insanity of anger.
Don't seethe anymore over
the graves of thousands brutally murdered
because of a religious idea conceived in idiocy.

Ideas are things both wondrous and dangerous.
They can raise up our hearts
or dash our souls against the rocks.

Love is the best idea of all.
Love even if you don't like.
I re-learn this idea's lesson
again and again each day,
as I reach for a rock
with which to bash
my fake enemies head
to a pulp.

I realize
at that moment,
the real enemy
is
me.

So, I return quickly to the idea of love.
I must.

Love is the savior of us all.
Love unceasingly. Love unfailingly.
But above all, love the idea of love.
In that idea is true religion.
If there is God,
That idea relinks us to its divinity.
And, we are saved.



--- What was the original American Aurora? The Aurora was a newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin Bache , a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. The Aurora was published in Philadelphia, our nation's capitol at the time.

The Aurora was highly critical of what Bache felt was the tyrannous Federalist governments of presidents Washington and Adams.

The result? Adams imprisoned Bache for sedition, where he languished, awaiting trial, until his death from yellow fever at age 29.