Waukegan Art

[believeinwaukegan]

Painting gang symbols on an elderly lady's garage is inexcusable, but does anyone out there understand (or care) that we may be in the process of poisoning the entire Gulf of Mexico. The oil has already spread so far that 1/3 of the Gulf has been closed to fishing. To dig an oil well so deep that we can't plug a gushing leak is even worse, much worse, than allowing corporations to become too big to fail. "Drill, baby, drill" has turned out to be a vile obscenity. And consider as well the recent push for nuclear power. We want more of it as soon as possible, even though the lethal radioactive waste it generates must be stored for longer than the entire period of human civilization, and we don't yet have a clue about how to do it. When you get past the soundbites and political spin and turn off the radio and TV and just think about these things, maybe even pray about them, you realize that we are living in a world that has fueled greed and envy and consumption to the point of insanity and self-destruction. "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world at the cost of his soul?" Most preachers won't tell you this, but Jesus reserved his harshest words and harshest judgment for those who chose the pursuit of mammon (money, power, prestige) over the pursuit of the Kingdom of God. In other words, he reserved his harshest words and harshest judgment for US.

I know, I've taken a thread and morphed it into another subject. Sorry Danno, but I don't think you'll mind.