Understanding

How many people go to church on Sunday and talk piously about peace, faith and love then go about the rest of their lives being armchair hypocrites who justify everything with a "but. . . "

Christianity is supposedly those people who accept Christ as their savior, but I have yet to read the words that justify the ifs, ands, or buts "Christian people" use to validate their mistreatment, hatred and "not loving" of so many of "God's children",  in the gospels.

Love is love. Peace is peace. Faith is faith. Given their actual meaning, they are probably the least practiced things in the world. They require incredibly wise, strong, courageous people who are willing to stand quietly and irrevocably for things that are not popular. Most of us fall way short of even the rudimentary parts of these things.

Fear, greed, misunderstanding, these are the things I hear more often than not.

I understand why, but that does not mean I know how to deal with it.

I only know that peace and love cannot be broken down into equal parts violence and hatred.