Larry offers some reflection on our greater citizenship (IMHO, the only citizenship worth caring about in comparsion to all others), the citizenship of the world, and for the Christian, this is reflected in our focus as a people on the Kingdom of God. For all the talk of the Religious Right regarding human worth and dignity, the toll taken of human life by actions and policies driven by greed and the will to power, and the companion justifications in the form of ideology represents a direct oppostion to the idea of a justice under God, and the justice embodied in the activity of God’s Kingdom. Well said in the post below (a portion of the entire post)

Building a Global Community�

The deaths of all innocent people offend and diminish us, no matter where they occur nor how different the culture from our own. The deaths of innocent people in Baghdad have been under-reported in Western media through a campaign designed to limit our comprehension of the human toll of the war in Iraq.

To stand for the human community as a gift from a creative God is not to stand in one political camp or the other. It’s to stand in the middle, to find a better way, and to create peace. It’s to stand apart from the death and destruction and to stand for understanding and compassion, healing and hope.

The pain of loss and suffering is the same in any language. In this understanding we are united. Both Sojourners and the National Council of Churches have proposed alternative ways to death and destruction. These seem to me more realistic and promising than the current path. It’s naive’ to assume that the force of arms will resolve conflict.