Just came back from watching "Blood Diamonds", the show starring Leonardo DiCarpio and Jennifer Connelly. It's a show, as aptly titled, about conflict diamonds and how the money generated by the mining, export and sale of such diamonds are used to fund civil wars in Africa.
I have heard/read about this before but had not paid much attention to it. Diamond is a gal's best friend and a wallet's worst. I have brought rings and necklaces before yet I have never considered the possibility of them having "blood". I did a search on certain jewellery shops and, phew, that they are conflict-free.
As much as the show was about diamonds and how people were going around killing their own people (of the same nationalities and colour), I was particularly disturbed by what Leo said in the middle of the show. He was with Jennifer and, with a bottle in his hand, said:
"Will God ever forgive us for doing this (ie the killing) to one another?" He paused and said
"No, He has forsaken this place a long time ago".
Will a great and mighty God, so full of love that He gave His only Son to die for us, do that? On the contrary, it's the evilness in Man and the pursuit of power and the lust for material, temporal things that drive all these insane behaviour.
God is around and watching and, probably, weeping at His Creation. And He knows He gave us a choice - to choose His ways or ours. And for most of us, and more often than not, it's the latter.
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