Sins of omission
By
Hamid Golpira
In this world, there are
sins of commission and sins of omission.
The sins of commission, in which people do evil acts, are
terrible. But verily, the sins of omission, in which people fail
to do the right thing, are somehow worse since they facilitate
the sins of commission.
Look at what is happening in Lebanon. The fascist Zionist
regime is attacking the people of Lebanon in retaliation for the
capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah.
The Zionists know that most of the people they are killing
are innocent civilians who are not members of Hezbollah and that
many of the victims are, or were, not even supporters of
Hezbollah. Yet, the Israelis continue their war of collective
punishment on an entire nation, killing children and destroying
infrastructure that the Lebanese worked hard to rebuild after
years of civil war.
Worse still, the world is for the most part silent.
Where are the voices that should be protesting this act of
injustice?
The sins of omission have again facilitated the sins of
commission.
However, Lebanon is not the only country in the world
suffering oppression. There are many forgotten wars and
forgotten people.
Billions of people, literally half the world’s population,
live in abject poverty. The worst war is the silent war on the
poor, in which over 20,000 children die of hunger or
poverty-related illnesses every single day.
The war on the poor is genocide, yet, bizarrely, none of the
guilty parties are being brought before the International
Criminal Court in The Hague to face charges of genocide, war
crimes, and crimes against humanity.
The haves have forgotten the have-nots, or they are totally
indifferent to their plight.
What is happening in Lebanon, the forgotten wars, and the
silent war on the poor is truly terrible, but those wars are
only injuring and killing people’s physical bodies. There is a
more terrible war that is killing the hearts and souls of
people.
That’s why so many of the haves have no compassion for the
have-nots. Their hearts and souls have been killed, and that is
far worse than any damage that can be inflicted upon the human
body.
Most of the haves are not even aware of their sins of
omission.
It is as if an evil spell has been cast on the haves of this
world, killing their compassion for their fellow human beings.
How can the spell be broken?
Well, those of us who are not under the spell must make
serious efforts to fight for justice and to wake people up,
while relying on help from God.
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