I Never Met A Jesuit Before I

Faith Is Rarely Where Your Head Is At. Nor Is It Where Your Heart Is At. Faith Is Where Your Ass Is At!

Sometime In Your Life, Hope That You Might See One Starved Man, The Look On His Face When The Bread Finally Arrives. Hope That You Might Have Baked It Or Bought Or Even Kneaded It Yourself. For That Look On His Face, For Your Meeting His Eyes Across A Piece Of Bread, You Might Be Willing To Lose A Lot, Or Suffer A Lot, Or Die A Little, Even.

Because We Want The Peace With Half A Heart And Half A Life And Will, The War, Of Course, Continues, Because The Waging Of War, By Its Nature, Is Total - But The Waging Of Peace, By Our Own Cowardice, Is Partial.

Every Nation-state Tends Towards The Imperial - That Is The Point. Through Banks, Armies, Secret Police, Propaganda, Courts And Jails, Treaties, Taxes, Laws And Orders, Myths Of Civil Obedience, Assumptions Of Civic Virtue At The Top. Still It Should Be Said Of The Political Left, We Expect Something Better. And Correctly. We Put More Trust In Those Who Show A Measure Of Compassion, Who Denounce The Hideous Social Arrangements That Make War Inevitable And Human Desire Omnipresent; Which Fosters Corporate Selfishness, Panders To Appetites And Disorder, Waste The Earth.

Instead Of Building The Peace By Attacking Injustices Like Starvation, Disease, Illiteracy, Political And Economic Servitude, We Spend A Trillion Dollars On War Since 1946, Until Hatred And Conflict Have Become The International Preoccupation.