Put the Stone Down

The Buddhists have a great saying:

‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone’,

although, now that I come to think of it,

perhaps it was the Muslims.

Or was it the Hindus?

Anyway, what does it matter who said it?

The point is that somebody did.

It’s never really occurred to me to throw stones at people,

coming, as I do, from a culture which prefers

the launching of missiles

over the throwing of stones

as a more effective way to cure people of their existence.

It self-identifies as a Christian culture,

which is, of course, hilariously absurd,

unless by Christian you mean

one who spectacularly misses the point.

If only our moral interpretations

were as accurate as our weapons systems,

we could go back to telling people to put the stone down.