This is a copy of my final post on Facebook.

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” — Ghandi

If only more people saw this as a challenge to do better, the world would have seen, and would be seeing, so much less suffering. Whether you believe in his divinity is up to you. But Jesus did leave us a great call to rise above the eye for an eye mentality and to be peaceful, to forgive and to love. The right wing Christian does not hear this calling, nor even understand it. The world needs our help. India is a zone of death. Why do so many oppose us helping them?
Among the opposition to Biden’s proposal you will find many wealthy Christians. I tell you, those are not Christians, who worship the Triune God, the mark of which is an imperfect but selfless person. No, they worship money and power and they are not shy about hating their fellow humans because of who they worship, who they love or even who they are. They hate the poor. They hate nonwhite races or other races not like themselves. They are not opposed to war or capital punishment. They vote for leaders who would see the suffering of millions.

Learn how to see what they are. Love and pity them but do not do as they say and do not listen to false teachings. Do not chase after the rich; they will steal everything you have and leave you empty, bitter and in rejection of your faith.

It is up to each person to answer the call of the peacemakers, the men and women who seek justice for everyone and an end to destruction and dessication. Don’t follow the ones who would render our world desolate.
Most of all, be kind. You need not believe in a higher power to do that. I leave behind this account on Saturday night. I do it for others, not myself. It’s an act of kindness, the only one I have to offer. Remember that words can be used to spread love…or hate. Use them with care, don’t be afraid to show love, but fear hate for its power to cause ruin. I have good friends here who have loved me without condition. To those who did have conditions, I’m sincerely sorry. To those who have been hurt or angered by my words, I humbly ask your forgiveness. Forgiving an errant person benefits you more than it does them.

I will leave this post up until the weekend in the hope that more people will read it. Be kind, forgive, but demand change. Because if this country leans any further to the right, it is doomed. We cannot imagine it, but it is more possible than many believe. It will take each of us to stop the hatred, the senseless deaths of innocents, the minotaur in Florida and his cult. You don’t need to be rich to make a difference or to leave a legacy. All you need is your heart.

Inspired by one small memory, I expanded it into a parting expression of the challenge for all to be kind, love freely and to guard against the people who seek desolation. They chase money and power and they will crush you under their heels regardless of your loyalty to them. No amount of power or money can satisfy them; they will vengefully destroy everything in total blindness as they pursue darkness.

We must be careful to engage them on legal and moral terms and not by being like them, or becoming what we hate. Many people believe that we are on borrowed time. I’m one of them. Stop every furnace, combustion engine, coal burning power plant and everything down to lawnmowers right now. Know what would happen? That’s right, global warming goes merrily on. We’ve already put up so much greenhouse gases that, like plastics made in 1950, it’s all still there. And we can’t stop it.

As polar glaciers melt at a pace even experts find surprising, the effects of freshwater entering the ecosystem and taking microorganisms with it are frightening, the stuff of nightmares. Permafrost melts, threatening a massive release of methane into the atmosphere. It will happen. And everything you’ve seen so far, from impossible blizzards to stronger hurricanes coming ashore are nothing to what you’re about to see. The droughts, lightning storms and wildfires will only get worse. And we are within a decade of coastline maps being dramatically changed.

The next organism that will cause a pandemic is already alive. Perhaps one, two mutations away from becoming a killer of millions.

NEOs, near-earth objects are large bodies of rock that pass just outside of, or worse, inside of the orbit of our moon, are causing scientists concern. We can’t detect their approach until they’re very close, and it doesn’t matter anyway, because we can’t do anything about them. Know what movie NASA shows its applicants? Look it up. Hint: it’s really horrible and is used as a test. They see how many errors the prospects can spot. Extra hint: there are many of them.

We need to do better to salve, but not stop, global threats.

And we can’t do that when evil comes between us. We need each other. Helping foreign countries helps us. We’re stronger together. But too many can’t see past greed and hate. That is our biggest threat.