This last week has displayed two sides of a coin called "Free Will", first the death of Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev Martin Luther King Jr, she was known affectionately as "the first lady of the civil rights movement" , a movement that changed America and in fact the whole world. Thousands of people lined up in silence watching the casket at the famous Ebenezer Baptist Church, a half a world away, buildings were burnt, thousands protested and riots broke out at the publishing of a cartoon displaying the prophet Mohammad in a not too reverent depicition.
Both offered on the basis of free will v human rights, yet total opposite in how it played out, some say you have to stand up for what you believe, others say your actions speak louder than your words, both were radical and illegal in their days yet both made a difference to the belief in "Absoulute Truth" from whatever perspective they were looking from.
One thing I would hope that comes from this modern day oxymoron is a fuller understanding of our purpose here on this small piece of rock and how what we do affects others around us, both negatively and positively.
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