Kemet Online: Followers of The Religion of Ancient Egypt: Public Memorial for John Hagins(Isep)

Em hotep Paherban
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Perhaps you can tell us what you mean by
"meuttn sp senou"

I am sorry you cannot recognize the humanity of a person who committed crimes.

I am sorry if for you their crimes render them not worthy of human respect.

For us dead or alive EVERY Child of Netjer is first and foremost respected as a human being.

We in Per Ankh find it interesting that from time to time folks from other communities drop into this thread to complain either..that we are supporting evil John..or that we are attacking him too much.

It indicates to us how hard a time many have reconciling bad actions and a persons fundemental humanity.

Let me tell you a story.. Some years ago I ran a center which worked largely with immigrant gang youth and their familes in a very poor community.

One young Cambodian boy who had really won my heart somehow was getting deeper and deeper into crips gang activity. All of our efforts to help him did not seem to have much affect.

In this community the Crips were almost entirely Asian and the Bloods Latino and Black. One day the doorbell rang and it was Henry all dressed in his crips blue gear...with a very scafred looked latino girl about 14 years old..equally clad in the dress of the bloods.

Henry was almost carrying her. As soon as I opened the door..."Sister Renee..she..she she..needs help"

After many hours the young girl opened up. She had just jumped out a windoe after being beaten by her father. She had had it and felt she could not return.

Now here is the thing... Henry was able to respond to Maria's plight as a human person. He did not know her ..but saw what was happening and responded.

Now, this is no West Side Story. Not even a week later Henry was in a gang fight with bloods and violently and maliciously stabbed another young teen simply because the teen was a "blood" and he needed to defend his own.

It would be so easy to just deny Henry's humanity and goodness given this atrocious action.

It wouold be all too easy to somehow write off the atrocity of his act because I had seen his great compassion and humanity.

And yet to go in either direction alone would be to miss something of the reality of Henry..a young person who could be great;y compassionate...and brutally malicious and lots of other things as well

I will never praise the bad things Henry did, Nor will I ever deny his compassion or humanity.

And I would even go so far as to suggest that when we allow ourselves to fall into either extreme..there is something of our OWN humanity that gets lost.

In our faith we are all about multiplying Ma'at. Not dwelling in Isfet.

And too Wesir John is not the John/Isep who did criminal acts...The rites have been completed successfully..and he is now among the blessed dead.

I hope this at least begins to address your question

Blessings

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Rev Renee Levant, Hemet Sekhmet & Aset
Founder & Wehemu & Educational Director
Per Ankh: The Traditional Religion of Ancient Egypt
http://www.per-ankh.org