LOOSING MOSES ON THE HIGHWAY

LOOSING MOSES ON THE HIGHWAY: "We all stray. We all violate some commandments and do not adequately honor others. We are human. But the commandments bind us together. They work to keep us from revering the false covenants that destroy us. These false covenants have a powerful appeal. They offer a sense of security and empowerment. They tempt us to be God. They tell us the things we want to hear and believe. They appear to make us the center of the universe. They make us feel we belong. But these false covenants, covenants built around exclusive communities of race, gender, class, religion and nation, inevitably carry within them the denigration of other who we exclude. The false covenants divide us. The covenant offered by the commandments, the covenant of life, is the covenant of love. It is a covenant that recognises that all life is sacred and love is the force that makes life together possible." -- Chris Hedges