Kill the Messenger
Why do some of the best amongst us get assassinated or persecuted? There must be a profound answer. Profound might be an illusionary word. What can the word possibly mean? Can anything be profound if the intelligence for it is absent? Where did God come from? Don't even think about being profound on this one. Why does God allow so much tragedy and cruelty to exist? Preachers try hard to be profound on this one but sound mostly silly and air-headed with their explanations. Try to be profound about sexual behavior and make a fool out of yourself. And so it goes on and on.
Beliefs I reckon are necessary for human hope and mental strength. If we can't have beliefs we lose the will to struggle for improving ourselves. The more emotional attachment to a belief the harder to let go. The religious right of any religion always dig in out of fear----fear that if all their beliefs are not true, who is to then say any of their beliefs are true? Civil rights and justice of most any kind has to overcome human beliefs which see no injustice. It is the leaders of such crusades for human rights and justice who run the risk of being assassinated or persecuted. We know full well why Lincoln was shot, why Martin Luther King was shot, why Harvey Milk was shot, etc. Others less famous were just ostracized, fined, defrocked, or jailed. In most cases of ethical advancement in search of 'justice for all' some individuals pay for their part in such advancement with their lives. There is no profound answer. That's why this musing is so short.
