Karma? Nah. It’s a Cop-out.

Ever hear anyone say, “If you want something done, do it yourself”?

I don’t believe in Karma. It’s kind of a cop-out—very much akin to the belief many Christians hold that God calls all the shots and will eventually make the ungodly pay.

One of the key reasons a doctrine of hell developed long after the Hebrew scriptural canon closed and well after Jesus too was that many of the faithful became frustrated wicked people were getting to the end of their earthly lives without having had anything happen to them to cause the agony they deserved. So it came to be reasoned the punishment would have to happen in the hereafter. Kind of a shot in the dark.

The punishments for such grievous violations of minimal standards of human ethics such as efforts at genocide and wealth-hoarding to the extent that some people in poverty starve to death or die because there’s no healthcare access (while people with the most money are untaxed) must be handled by principled individuals who stand for right, here and now.

Image used with the gracious permission of the Smithsonian Online Access “Hell,” Leroy Almon, Sr., born Tallapoosa, GA 1938-died Tallapoosa, GA 1997.

I’m not proposing violence. I’m just saying Jasmine Crocket, AOC, Jamie Raskin, and President Zelenskyy need to be kept in the loop.