[Peace-discuss] Recent Public Square Commentary

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

Listen or read below: Creative Writing: an interesting commentary!
> Subject: Recent Public Square Commentary
>
> http://www.will.uiuc.edu/community/publicsquare/default.htm
> Hello, my name is Arthur Cronkhite and I come to you today, asking  
> questions with regard to the University's mascot.
>
> Why does the University of Illinois use an earth-based religious  
> symbol? What kind of arrogance allows the University to believe it  
> can somehow capture the Native American spirit in a mascot? Why do  
> vast numbers of students and alumni, fervently worship an ancient  
> religious ideal?
>
> When a child of no consequence, adorned in spiritual regalia,  
> dances forth from an underground passage into the Assembly Hall,  
> what underworld spirits does he bring with him? As he dances like a  
> madman possessed, upon dead woods bound and lacquered in a domed  
> hut void of all nature, what dark forces are spread among the  
> gathered tribe?
>
> As those present stand in devotion, arms positioned to receive "the  
> spirit", what demons fly from sacred feathers to posse the  
> worshipers? What malevolent tentacles entangle the hearts of those  
> who have opened themselves to receive "the spirit"?
>
> Once the channeling is complete, the spirit accepted and the  
> followers go forth, do they take the underworld with them? Is this  
> why editors of the student newspaper, published disrespect of  
> Muslim beliefs, or Greeks in their hedonism taunted those of other  
> color - because the dark spirits are strong among them?
>
> Is it a tribe of spirits that trick the devoted into believing that  
> The Chief "is only a mascot and nothing more", or one great demon?  
> What kind of underworld darkness blinds normally devout Christians,  
> allowing them to proudly submerse themselves in pagan practice and  
> symbols?
>
> Do these spirits now call to our elected officials? Is it an  
> underworld vision that leads these men in battle to deny truth? Is  
> it possible we have found the original source to some of the  
> darkness today - which have these men aiding and abetting a  
> criminal Presidency that wages war upon the Muslim world?
>
> Why is it that a place of understanding, truth and wisdom, now  
> comes under siege by those of dominance seeking submission? Why do  
> these men seek to practice spiritual legislation that will  
> guarantee continued desecration? Is it because they must have blind  
> followers, in order to stay in power?
>
> Or could it be simple ignorance, in what is done each time a child  
> without a vision quest, unnamed through infant testing, conjuring  
> spirits without aged wisdom, has produced such a poisonous caldron?  
> Which begs the last of questions.
>
> When will the elders come and shed light upon these deceived  
> practices? When will the real Chiefs assemble and confront the dark  
> forces that hold us captive? When will the fires of the circle be  
> lit and the surface spirits called, so that all may understand?  
> When will dark hearts be exposed to the purifying light of spirit  
> dances that only the children of the earth may practice fully?
>
> For until they do, and until we see, dark spirits will continue to  
> dance with glee in the hearts of ignorant men.
>
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