just wondering
Why do you suppose this is: a cool chilly morning is welcome in springtime, but not in winter? Why do you suppose this is: a prominent local person is accused and indicted for "white collar crimes," and the list of charges splashed on press and television so frequently over months as publicly to smear and make a fair trial impossible by any but the oblivious and stupid illiterate, who at any event would not be "peers"? Why do you suppose this is: a reasonably competent priest (generously grade him C+ or B-) I know was so reluctant an introvert as to avoid seminary for over a quarter century before finally owning his destiny in early middle age, and, in retrospect, perhaps even then in response to mid-life crisis?
Are we, slowly, apparently obliviously, leaving a democracy to become a dictatorship under the governance of greedy, egomaniacal fools with military parades, supposed to be okay with the idea of the army (anyone who thinks the national guard is not armed forces is an idiot) prepared to use armed force against brown people who want to enter what for a while was envied as the country of freedom and opportunity? Which side of the Berlin Wall do we live on? What would we do if it were Canadians who wanted to get in? HJJC, have we forgotten Kent State? My Lai? What have we become, are becoming? Perhaps always have been: since leaving home and going away to college and permanently, a good part of my life has been spent consciously surfacing to myself and working to overcome the Southerner that in the deepest recesses of my being, I know myself to be, who will as instinctively stand for Dixie as Peter Sellers' right arm snaps to Heil. What am I? What are we?
But I digress from my business of the day, which is today's TGBC reading, which continues Peter's evangelical speech from yesterday:
Are we, slowly, apparently obliviously, leaving a democracy to become a dictatorship under the governance of greedy, egomaniacal fools with military parades, supposed to be okay with the idea of the army (anyone who thinks the national guard is not armed forces is an idiot) prepared to use armed force against brown people who want to enter what for a while was envied as the country of freedom and opportunity? Which side of the Berlin Wall do we live on? What would we do if it were Canadians who wanted to get in? HJJC, have we forgotten Kent State? My Lai? What have we become, are becoming? Perhaps always have been: since leaving home and going away to college and permanently, a good part of my life has been spent consciously surfacing to myself and working to overcome the Southerner that in the deepest recesses of my being, I know myself to be, who will as instinctively stand for Dixie as Peter Sellers' right arm snaps to Heil. What am I? What are we?
But I digress from my business of the day, which is today's TGBC reading, which continues Peter's evangelical speech from yesterday:
Acts 2:37-47
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the other apostles, ‘Brothers, what should we do?’ Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.’ And he testified with many other arguments and exhorted them, saying, ‘Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.’ So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.
Why do you suppose this is: that a holy man can't stand most pious religious art, but enjoys piety in the startling abstract or lightened with a splash of humor?
And one wonders whether the ideal of "from each according to his ability to each according to his needs" as portrayed above in Christian Scripture could possibly survive the human manifestation of Original Sin?
DThos+
Why do you suppose this is: that a holy man can't stand most pious religious art, but enjoys piety in the startling abstract or lightened with a splash of humor?
And one wonders whether the ideal of "from each according to his ability to each according to his needs" as portrayed above in Christian Scripture could possibly survive the human manifestation of Original Sin?
DThos+