Out of the 1611 double-Bible rifts and splits in Christianity came several arms of faith, each maintaining that they're the new keepers of the law, or the only true descendents of the Apostle Peter, blah, blah, blah. Some arms continued to split and split and split, maintaining a holier-than-thou attitude. (Hmmm, seems like anger might be one of the deep rooted causes at the core of a lot of this).
The wonderful richness that came out of all of this political and religious division was this: It created more individualized milking stations or watering troughs so that everyone was freer to be at a different refinement stage of their growth along the Alpha Ape to Omega Man spectrum. And, each division was acting like a different part of the body (perhaps also at different refinement stages of growth).
The danger in any growth development (whether divided or not) has always been too much lip-service and not enough heart service with renewed minds. In other words, a lot of talk and little action.
And, the dangers of organized politics and organized religions become very real when powerful, collective voices start babbling politically and religiously (diverting faith and attention) all-the-while looking for scapegoats to justify their own political or religious clique, instead of whole-heartedly working for and speaking on behalf of all the good, common folks, within our just and global societies. But, some societies within our global village still don't have it as good as we do. And on behalf of the oppressed (as the following historical example will show) oftentimes our leaders remain strangely silent. At any rate, throughout history it has been simple human compassion and love that has been lacking. Precepts and policy tend only to come into existence after a great deal of hostility and suffering.
An Example:
History proves Howcroft right!
When will Ian Howcroft, vice-president of the Alliance of Manufacturing come down from his ivory tower and clearly see with the rest of us, that the global fuel crisis is not simply a protest by a small number of "renegade" truckers, but is in fact, a real, live, global fuel crisis affecting the livelihoods of millions of common people?
Even so, we should not expect any relief, common sense, or appropriate mediation in this matter. History proves otherwise when it comes to the hardships and sufferings of it's common people.
For instance, in 1932-33, while the global media focused it's front page attention on the gaudy show trial of Chile's Gen, Augusto Pinochet in London, England; world leaders watched without assistance while Josef Stalin's power systematically starved 10 million Ukrainians.
So too in 2000, as the media shifts to the crisis in the Middle East, governments lack the appropriate mediatory action and responsible direction on behalf of it's commoners whose livelihoods are once again threatened, this time through escalating fuel costs.
We elect government for active leadership, not rhetoric in times of crisis. Certainly, in times of war when national
