Evan Sherman and I talk about the Mideast (some) - but also how we have turned politics into the primary expression of the moral - and how that has moved dogma from religion into world of politics - altering what we acknowledge as fact.
An excerpt …
But morality exists within this reality we are called to live in. We don’t create it ourselves. Our in-group does not define it. And in order to act morally in this world, I will need to understand it on it’s own terms. Even if it challenges me. Even if it leaves me outside of my chosen in-group. Even if it causes me to mourn and pushes me toward meekness and a hunger and thirst for righteousness and toward mercy. Even if it leads to my isolation, rejection, and persecution. If I never mourn my own spiritual poverty, for example, there is a part of my reality I am ignoring or rejecting. If I never see the need for mercy for others, there is a part of their reality I am ignoring or rejecting.
“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
“‘We played the pipe for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you did not mourn.’
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”
Jesus - Matthew 11:16-18
Links
All the President’s Dogs - Mike Sherman, The Embassy
After Hospital Blast, Headlines Shift with Changing Claims - The New York Times
AP visual analysis: Rocket from Gaza appeared to go astray, likely caused deadly hospital explosion - Associated Press
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