Unjustly Accused? Just Kick the Dog

This is a story I was told about a visitor’s trip to a remote woodland cabin of a trapper. When the visitor arrived at the clearing, his attention was immediately pulled toward a large hunting hound sitting near the cabin’s door and loudly howling a mournful and eloquent dirge of canine sorrow. More, the howling went on, and on, and on.

Finally, the visitor asked the trapper, “What’s wrong with that hound?”

“Oh”, the trapper informed him, “Nothin.’ There’s a board under his butt that has a sharp nail sticking up. Ol’ Blue sat on it, and he’s too damned lazy to move on his own. And I'll be darned if I’ll help him.”

Just so with many people, it takes a long period of pain and suffering before they’ll get off their butts and move away from the nail.

Injustice is your nail.

You must struggle against injustice. If you do not our soul is less than it should be. You have not served God as you should. If this is not sin, what is?

Never to question, is one of the very few real sins. Injustice is your nail.

You can choose to be Ol’ Blue. You can choose to question and resist injustice. It is the struggle that is important.

Do not expect to achieve perfect justice. Do not expect to right all wrongs. Do not expect to save the naive from the vultures. Just try to get as close as possible. Sin is that which interferes with God’s Plan.

Little is more foolish than the hero carelessly charging off to save the fair maiden. Especially if later he discovers that the wench is a volunteer temple prostitute. At the same time, be careful of whom you blame for your perceived injustice. It is always easier to blame someone else.

It is always easier to blame some other group. This is always easier than to lay the blame on anything so cold and remote as simple unlucky circumstances. You can try blaming your perceived injustice on an unfeeling and uncaring God. You can try to place blame on unlucky circumstances. You can also delude yourself. Believe that some person, or some group, is deliberately creating an injustice.

It is a simple task of realistic targeting. It is very hard to kick the shins of unlucky circumstances. It is very hard to kick the shins of God. It might have appalling results if it could be done. Your neighbor is closer. Your neighbor has shins. Your neighbor is possibly weaker. Your neighbor will shout his agony very satisfactorily. And if not, your neighbor, then there’s always the family dog.

But remember, even the dog has teeth.

(c) Copyright 2006: George Wallace recently published a book on religion which lashes out at nearly all of the comfortable ideas about God, the trappings of organized religion, and the priesthood. His pithy comments and suggestions for a return to a God-centered personal religion will interest everyone. This article may be freely reprinted so long as all copyright attributions, and the full content of this resource box are included. www.OhGodIsThatYou.com

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