Experience or faith?

the here and now is sacred

there is something of god in every person

hatred destroys, but love endures and overcomes

speaking Truth to power and acting nonviolently can bring  peace

Comments

[Dean Landsman]

This is most troubling. Try, try, try as I do, there's just NO WAY AT ALL to come up with just what the "something of God" might be in a certain feller who hails from Crawford, Texas. I suspect that old Broderick "10-4" Crawford is rolling around in his grave over all the use of his surname associated with that agent of Satan now occupying the Oval Office.

Other than the brain teaser part, that's mostly good stuff. Then again, if I were in New Orleans a little while ago, or Baghdad/Darfur/Liberia (etc.) today, I'd probably wonder exactly how very much the here and now might be categorized as sacred.

[fp]

The use of "sacred" and "god" is somewhat poetic and imprecise. When I was a kid, the world of religiosity was broken out into "atheist, agnostic, or believe in god?" If the latter, then there was a more nuanced analysis... "Christian, Jewish, or Eastern?" If the latter, "Buddhist, Hindu, or New York Yankees?" You get my drift.

Today, my analysis - informed by a B-school education - falls out into a four quadrant analysis, bifurcated along lines of "theistic" or "non-theistic," and "aware" or "delusional." This is a fun four quadrant analysis to play with. W., I think, falls into the delusional and theistic square.

Homework is to write a 2000 word essay on Job in this context.

[Dean Landsman]

Before completing the assigned task I have bu tone question: Does typepad allow 2000 word comments?

[genevieve tucker]

My brother used to paraphrase Job rather neatly when teased: " Why am I always being tested?"