Williamson addresses ‘massacre’ in talk

Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson rounded off a weekend of Las Vegas appearances with a Sunday morning speech at the Center for Spiritual Living Greater

Las Vegas that focused on subduing the hatred flowing through mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, while bringing back a sense of morality to politics.

She called the El Paso shooting “a massacre” and accused President Donald Trump of giving “legitimacy and passive support” to white nationalism. She said the recent violence is “the meaning of hell on earth.”

The author of seven books weaved through various religious and spiritual ideologies in a roller coaster of a 33-minute speech to the standing-room-only crowd at the center, 1420 E. Harmon Ave. It dipped in and out of politics, theology and self-help, as Williamson often made larger moral observations that she would then drill down to politics.

She said that the country was trying to fight a darkness manifested through racism, homophobia, xenophobia and other hatred, but “you can’t fight darkness. You have to turn on the light.”

Williamson said the country needed to look at its foreign and domestic policies that fund genocide in Yemen and allow children to go to school without school supplies or food and realize these problems must be fixed. America needs to return to making moral, decent decisions.

“(Some policies) have nothing to do with good,” she said. “It has to do with a few people making money.”

She said religious and spiritual leaders must “be the adults in the room” when it comes to hatred in America, because they know evil exists.

“That’s what’s so wrong with the current political mind-set of America,” she said. “It’s so based on this understanding of itself as so sophisticated, and it is so unsophisticated. Because if you don’t have a clue as to what goes on inside the heart of that young man yesterday, you don’t have a clue what will repair the world, because you don’t really have a clue of what’s wrong with the world.”

As with previous campaign stops, she stressed making a priority out of education, feeding the hungry and helping people and their communities as much as possible.