Last July, the Public Religion Research Institute reported results of a survey which showed that among adults born after 1980, one sixth are conservatives, but one quarter are progressives. Robert P Jones, head of PRRI, says, “The percentage of religious conservative shrinks in each successive generation . . .”
Such an appalling story. The beloved city is besieged. Famine—man-made, war-made—has them by the throat. No crops come from the fields for no one dares venture outside the city walls. No one is free. Everyone is terrified.
Late last spring, I read a new book by Nick Turse called “Kill Anything That Moves.” I recall the moment I finished it. I closed the cover and laid it on the table and wept some while in silence.
This is the lesson that must be learned. Spiritually speaking, there is no other lesson to learn. It is the one commandment. God comes to nothing.
Meditate with me on this promise, this hope, this possibility: Food for all. When there is food for all, then there will be no more war, no more greed, no more racism, no more mean streets, no more mass incarceration, no more border police, no more deportation, no more joblessness, no more fracking the foundations of the earth, no more lousy education, no more lousy housing, no more . . .
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