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different. Dehumanizing labels help soldiers to commit the unnatural act of killing people, but empathy is needed to understand and to progress. (Robert McNamara’s lesson number one from Vietnam, in The Fog of War).
A Trappist monastery is a microcosm of the world: A community of men or women, different by temperament, class, education, race and nationality who make a life-long commitment to love God by practicing the art of loving their neighbor. And it begins with a very rational precept, The Golden Rule: As you would want to be treated, so treat others.
What a revolution if governments learned to do the same, starting with our own “Christian” administration in Washington DC.
John Kiser is the author of The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love and Terror in Algeria, St Martins Press (2002), just published in France in March 2006 for the 10th anniversary commemoration of their deaths.
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