Saltiness by Carol Wolman

Saltiness by Carol Wolman

Mark 9:     ⁴⁹For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.  ⁵⁰Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

 

George Galloway, British member of Parliament, injected some salt into the US Senate when he appeared before a panel investigating his alleged participation in a Saddam food-for-oil scam.  Galloway dismissed the panel as a ''neo-con ... pro-war, Republican lynch mob.''

 

Have we Americans lost our saltiness, our ability to call a spade a spade, tell it like it is, be salted with fire?  Where is the outrage at the sweetheart Halliburton deals?  At the ongoing revelations of US torture?  At the huge budget deficit?  At the effort to overturn the time-honored filibuster?

 

Where is the demand for an explanation of the discrepancy between the exit polls in the 2004 election, which gave the victory to Kerry, and the voting machine results?  Where is the demand for answers to the many unanswered questions about 9-11?   Where is the demand for impeachment for lying to the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq?

 

Where is our saltiness?  Without it, we will have no peace.

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace,  Carol Wolman