Imperialism is still alive and well. You don’t have a military force of the size that the US this very moment has in the middle of the Arab world & call it ‘self-inflicted violence,’ it is imported from the outside.

We know we can’t stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?