Koan #7: Cross or Crescent or Sickle

Let the choice be clear to all, as history has arguably shown and continues to show, the future will either be one of the Cross or the Crescent or the Sickle. For only the Cross can convert the Crescent or the Sickle; only the Crescent can overwhelm the Sickle and the Cross; and only the Sickle can overtly squash the others. And while the Cross—it cannot be denied—has unjustly crucified some, the Crescent has decapitated many more and the Sickle has exterminated even more than this. Yet it also cannot be denied that the Cross has helped to birth the liberty, freedoms, dignity and strength of the most prosperous nations on earth, which are inseparable from the cultural, philosophical and social influences of that very Cross. Let all, therefore, pick their side carefully and make their choice wisely, for much depends on it and indeed, much will come from it for all men and their children.