Tolerance . . . . toward freedom

As the year 2011 (solar) enters in, the current dominant force of intolerance toward religious minorities seems to be prevailing. The latest news or evidence of this comes from Egypt where 21 Christian believers were killed in a car bomb explosion that also injured 79 people (with numbers increasing as reports continue) just after midnight Saturday in east Alexandria, Egypt.




How are people of faith - any faith - to cope with or deal with such blatant acts of hatred?

The answer seems to lie somewhere between tolerance and freedom.

As in either case, more involvement by more people of good conscience and loving hearts is certainly required.

Which comes to that ultimate question (and conundrum) that has perplexed human beings since that first night of looking up at a celestial firmament while situated upon an earthly one: How do I get there from here?

The path from simple, uncommon tolerance to freedom seems forever wrought with obstacles. And leaving one or a few of those for -- the next one -- seems never, truly, to be the best possible option.

Hence, is it actually possible that discovery of that pure, genuine path, toward -- freedom; "religious," here in particular -- lies, yet ahead?

This be my (everlasting) prayer.

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."  (2 Corinthians 3:17)