Some of the kids were offended by what she said and replied that it was OK to put a cross up because it was a symbol of Christianity. She went back to school and talked about this in one of her classes the next week. I told my niece I didn't understand why someone would put a symbol of Jesus' death up at Christmas. Five of the houses had crosses laid out in lights. My niece was visiting two weekends ago and while she was here we drove around town looking at the Christmas lights. Why does passionate belief seem to turn into passionate hatred? Philosopher Eric Hoffer wrote, "Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life." Is that why people slide down that slippery slope to hatred so easily? Could it be that before they found their passion their lives had no meaning or purpose? It is as if once passion walks in the front door, compassion scurries out the back. A perceived attack on the belief is seen as a personal attack on the person who holds the belief. That kind of passion is a loss of self to a belief and that kind of passionate belief seems to be egocentric. That kind of passion is why a man will kill his wife or girlfriend when she leaves him and then himself. That kind of passion is why a man who believes life is sarced can kill and main others by bombing a Planned Parenthood clinic. That kind of passion is why those men flew two aircraft into the World Trade Center towers. When I say that passion is the cause of most of the trouble in the world I mean the kind of passion that surrounds a belief which has been warped by hatred for anyone who does not share that belief. Passion: the state or capacity of being acted on by external agents or forces the emotions as distinguished from reason intense, driving, or overmastering feeling an outbreak of anger ardent affection a strong liking for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept an object of desire or deep interest.
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