US Congress Hides From Real Leadership/Problems

I've just seen headlines (I didn't bother to read the article) that the US Congress wants to pass some sort of resolution about the WWI era slaughter of Armenians being labeled as a genocide. Excuse me, but are there not incredible problems of injustice and lack of child care and security and so forth that are taking place today that Congress should be addressing instead?

This is just the latest in "aggrieved party" legislation and reparation gymnastics, all of whom I am against because it serves no good purpose, and is actually counterintuitive. By the same logic, I suggest the US Congress pass a resolution that all people are sinners and genocide enablers because Cain slew Abel. Why does not the US Congress start there? (Oh, that's right, they might have to actually mention God the Creator in order to pass that particular resolution!) But is that not the first injustice, and is that not the father of all murders? Should not the educated and progressive US Congress start with the first offense and work their way forward, forgetting no war, no oppression, no injustice, until they eventually get around to exploring what is happening under their very long noses today?

It does not matter that I had Armenian friends whose families suffered, any more than it matters that I have had friends in every cultural group that has experienced tragedy and slaughter in the past 10,000 years of "human civilization." I'm so tired of the old dodge of trying to look compassionate and relevant by raking over the bones of those who lost their lives in the past, and thus avoiding the injustices that are rampant today. Do not think that God does not see, know that this is also another attempt to look "moral" by singling out specific groups for condemnation, yet ignoring other past transgressions. This is why it is a waste of time and worse, a diversion from addressing today's lack of piety and the prevalence of injustice. We've been over this before: slavery, Native Americans, the Holocaust (both Jewish and non Jewish victims), and by the way, Christians are never supposed to mention that Jesus was killed by someone...

Do we condemn Native American groups who sacrificed children and slaughtered neighboring tribes, at the same time we apologize for the white invasion of their lands? Do they then balance out in some crazy ledger? Will the US Congress pass resolutions for "The Unknown Genocides?" You know, all those genocides that have taken place in the past 10,000 years but are forgotten or never known in the history books? Ancient Israelites should be condemned for slaughtering the Canaanites, while at the same time we should pass a resolution condemning the slaughter of babies by the Canaanites in pagan idol infant sacrifices. Why do we not pass resolutions about that? Is that not equally bad? Should we pass resolutions to condemn from the past two centuries... but only after finding out what tribes co-enabled the selling of slaves to the whites? So we can pass the resolution condemning the US use of slaves, but we also research which tribes in Africa captured members of rival tribes and sold them into slavery in the first place?

I have a news flash. Humans are terrible evil sinners and have been since, well, as I mentioned above, Cain killed Abel. If we had nothing to do with our time but be idle scholars (since we live in such a perfect and enlightened society) I would have no problem with people generating resolution after resolution about injustices of the past. But to do so when the world is in the biggest crisis of faith and decency since World War II is unbelievably irresponsible. And don't think I don't know that it is politics and "progressiveness," not morality, that is driving this resolution about the Armenians. If people really cared about the Armenians you would be encouraging the flourishing of their Christianity and community today, not exploiting them by meaningless resolutions that do nothing but exacerbate a current problem (and I've been in Turkey so I know what I'm talking about.) When are people going to use a common belief in God and goodness to solve current problems, instead of cynically shaking the bones of the hundred year old past?

Meanwhile I can imagine God waiting for that resolution about humanity's sinfulness, desire to repent and return to piety, and condemnation of the sin of Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel. I guess if Abel was gay we'd see a resolution passed much more quickly. US Congress: get a grip, stop the war on God, and get back to work. Your living constituents are suffering today. Sheesh.