This documentary takes an extensive look at genocide, religious persecution of Orthodox Ethiopian Christians, ethnic cleansing, looting of International economic aid, land grabs by foreign governments (China, India, Saudi Arabia), and crimes against humanity by the totalitarian Ethiopian government.

Documentary:U.S Policy:ETHIOPIA A FAILED STATE!

March 7, 2015 by James Ross Kelly

Poetry, Symbolism and Typology—Thomas Merton

St. John One: One

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Now the writers of the Bible were aware that they shared with other religions the cosmic symbols in which God has revealed Himself to all men. But they were also aware that pagan and idolatrous religions had corrupted this symbolism and perverted its original purity [Merton cites Romans 1:18 and 25] The Gentiles had “detained the truth of God in injustice” and “changed the truth of God into a lie.”
Creation had been given to man as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into men’s souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, the sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to man not of themselves only but of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of man after the fall led the Gentiles further and further from this truth. Nature became…

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