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When I was fifteen, during my Hebrew High School summer in Israel, we were coming back from a trip one night and stopped by the sea. The moon was full, the ocean was beautiful and the air balmy and intoxicating. I ran into the waves, still in my dress, with the skirt swirling around me. I remember feeling such a deep sense of oneness and connectedness with the night, the moon, the sea, and all of life.
The war in Iraq is a disaster on every level, moral, spiritually, humanitarian, military. Trying to improve the situation by sending in more troops is like trying to salvage the Titanic by revving up the engines after it’s hit the iceberg. A reversal is called for, not more of the same, destructive course.
Women have not faired well under most religions for the last five thousand years or so. But let’s take the long view: that’s just a blip on the timeline of human history. Before, and concurrently in many indigenous cultures, the divine was and is pictured in female as well as male form, as the Great Mother who was the creative, regenerative power in nature and life.
The values that we draw from our religions are certainly part of any political campaign. But we could certainly do without the parading of religiosity, the establishing of one’s religious credentials, the use of religious—and let’s face it, we mean, overwhelmingly, Christian---language.
What Islam Really Says About Violence, Rights and Other Religions
Gomaa, Fadlallah, Mubarak, Khan, Siddiqi, Ellison, others | On Faith
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