You've framed it right, by my lights. As ever. I do indeed know and share friendship with Christians of good will, folks who know what "caritas" and "agape" are, and seek every day to grow in the light of their master's teachings and spirit. They have done me the honor of living-and-letting-live-with-best-wishes; I do my best to return the honor and the favor.
Alas, too many people in the world, especially some loud and bellicose factions who claim to belong to the "great" religious traditions, prefer to oversimplify existence as some proprietary-supernatural analog of a bad war movie driven by a rationalized ferocity they persist in associating with the divine (perhaps because that seems to justify their own ferocity). They believe they are the majority. (They wish.)
I see such folks as more of a threat to their own deepest truth (and their religions' viability) than any of the rest of us. I'm guessing they will never see that.
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Date: 2009-03-25 07:56 pm (UTC)Alas, too many people in the world, especially some loud and bellicose factions who claim to belong to the "great" religious traditions, prefer to oversimplify existence as some proprietary-supernatural analog of a bad war movie driven by a rationalized ferocity they persist in associating with the divine (perhaps because that seems to justify their own ferocity). They believe they are the majority. (They wish.)
I see such folks as more of a threat to their own deepest truth (and their religions' viability) than any of the rest of us. I'm guessing they will never see that.