Now about the generals

RantWoman is humbly grateful for all the people able to engage and dialogue with Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove International Fellowship in FL.

http://blog.sojo.net/2010/09/13/applauding-humility-and-a-good-decision-by-terry-jones/

Friends at RantWoman's Meeting also were grateful and a net of messages came together. Then as messages are wont to do, other threads entered the fabric: when a Friend offered a message about early Friends being a persecuted religious minority, RantWoman's wanderings in the blogosphere crystallized rather faster than RantWoman thinks is popular in a message during Meeting for Worship:

RantWoman spoke of the early Friend she read of recently who wrote of speaking to that of God in Oliver Cromwell, one of those classic "love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you" moments.

Then RantWoman was led to confess that she personally would have had no idea where to begin to speak to that of God in Pastor Jones. RantWoman is abidingly grateful for all the people who have.

Then RantWoman, ever the overachiever mentioned all the generals who have been on one hand telling Pastor Jones that burning a Q'uran will outrage Muslims and endanger US troops and on the other hand ordering the use of unmanned drones to burn live civilians. RantWoman naively supposes this probably outrages Muslims worldwide. RantWoman understands the generals' "logic" about the use of drones sparing the lives of US forces. RantWoman however is unclear about why she feels more able to dialogue about drones than about burning the Q'uran.

In fact, after worship a Friend asked RantWoman, "so what is your position on the generals?" All RantWoman could tink to say "hold them in the Light." Will RantWoman be signing up for more direct dialogue anytime soon? Uhhhhh....