Love Thy Neighbour, Dammit!
Date Friday, March 29, 2024 - 05:19 AM PST
Topic Religion


This morning in Archaeology of the Body, we had a lecture about forensic pathology. The gentleman who gave it had spent a few months in Kosovo a couple years back. The lecture wasn't very relevant to what I am planning to do with my life, but the slides certainly hit home.
His job as a forensic pathologist had been to help unearth bodies for identification and to collect evidence for the ongoing war crimes tribunal. Well, as you can imagine most of the slides were pretty gruesome, since many of the bodies had been buried for less than a year at the time, some of them in body bags.

The slides showed that many of these bodies had been buried bound and gagged, riddled with bullet wounds, and usually with at least one shot to the head at close range. These were not soldiers slain in glorious battle. These were victims of government sanctioned murder. Few have any identifying marks, so few will ever be returned to their families.

There is no glory in what has been done there. Only racism and loved ones who will never come home. I cannot even begin to understand the mentality behind such acts of senseless violence.

We are supposed to be spreading the message of "love thy neighbour". I don't care if you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Pagan, Atheist or anything else. The message remains the same. One person, devoting every waking hour of his or her life to spreading this message will never reach enough people with it. But that's no reason not to try.

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