{"id":90207,"date":"2019-06-11T16:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90207"},"modified":"2019-06-11T16:51:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:51:06","slug":"hatred-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/11\/hatred-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatred in us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>To err is human forgive is divine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a time when Jews were hated &nbsp;by almost all\nthe Germans .After over 70 years of the war In Germany there hatred is still\nprevailing , government requested Jews to refrain from wearing Kippah which is\nthe traditional cap to avoid confrontation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Sri Lanka we have no Jews but we have Muslims wearing\ntheir Taqiyah which is s half round cap to identify themselves. Some people who\nhave become quite racist due to the recent incidents make frowned faces when\nthey they see a Musliman wearing &nbsp;Taqyah and utter Thamgiyah which\nvengeance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not a racist but I hate three wheel drivers who are a\nmenace to the motorists in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quite a few three wheeler drivers wear taqiyah and it &nbsp;\nDoubles &nbsp;dislikeness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My driver who is quite disciplined always makes comments\nwhen three wheeler driver behaves erroneously on the road and comments.\nThambiyek\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among Buddhist we are supposed to practice Marta and Karuna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among Christians there is a saying they&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<strong>the<\/strong>&nbsp;Gospel of Matthew, an alternative for\n&#8220;an eye for an eye&#8221; is given by Jesus: You have heard that it\nwas&nbsp;<strong>said<\/strong>, &#8220;An eye for an eye and&nbsp;<strong>a<\/strong>&nbsp;tooth\nfor&nbsp;<strong>a<\/strong>&nbsp;tooth.&#8221; But I&nbsp;<strong>say<\/strong>&nbsp;to you, Do not\nresist&nbsp;<strong>the<\/strong>&nbsp;one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you&nbsp;<strong>on\nthe right cheek<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>turn<\/strong>to him&nbsp;<strong>the<\/strong>&nbsp;other also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shall we be ardent followers of our religion and think&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TO ERR IS HUMAN ,FORGIVE IS DIVINE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath obeysekera&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath obeysekera\u00a0 To err is human forgive is divine There was a time when Jews were hated &nbsp;by almost all the Germans .After over 70 years of the war In Germany there hatred is still prevailing , government requested Jews to refrain from wearing Kippah which is the traditional cap to avoid confrontation. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}