One particular person whom I spoke with just lately instructed me that the underside line to his disappointment on this election was the next: That he realized that almost all of Individuals usually are not good folks. And this has completely altered his view of America and dwelling in America.
One other particular person instructed me one thing comparable. Now, when he walks down the road, he wonders about everybody he passes. “Did that particular person vote for Trump?” he asks himself.
Can an individual who voted for Trump and his 33,000 lies final time in workplace, lies pronounced rally after rally after rally in Election 2024, be referred to as a “good particular person”? Voting for some one who guarantees to free from jail on his first day in workplace the legions of violent protesters who strove to overthrow the federal government by attacking the capitol and the very peaceable switch of energy on January 6?
Meister Eckhart gave us a really profound and sensible definition of a very good particular person when he mentioned, “a very good particular person is one who praises good folks.” particular person is searching for goodness. Such an individual shouldn’t be caught in envy or competitors and has not misplaced the artwork of praising.
particular person praises. particular person lives with a By way of Positiva, a love of life, near their coronary heart. In distinction, a foul particular person doesn’t reward good folks.
Thomas Aquinas alerted us to how “a tyrant is extra afraid of excellent folks than of unhealthy folks.” Good and Magnificence and Fact have been on the poll this November. And so they misplaced.
The checklist of cupboard members proposed by the president-elect shouldn’t be over-flowing with good folks.
An individual who doesn’t care about reality in any vogue has misplaced his/her soul. The Christ by every other identify is rightly referred to as “the Fact and the Gentle.” The winner on November 5 was not reality or mild or the Christ by every other identify. The most effective of human nature didn’t win on November 5. However the worst.
Anticipate extra violence; extra hatred; extra racism; extra sexism; extra compulsion to regulate girls’s our bodies; extra corruption; extra rule by the few; extra distractions; extra circuses; extra leisure; extra injustice; extra denial of and work towards local weather change; extra privileges for the few and nicely linked (tax cuts for instance); extra indifference to proper and mistaken; extra efforts to chop Social Safety and Medicare and Medicaid; extra crackpot Christianity; extra idolatry; extra scapegoating; extra lies; extra hypocrisy; extra patriarchy; extra world warming with all its penalties; extra class warfare; extra billionaires working the media spewing lies with out finish of which the Murdochs have been the development setters; extra billionaires making choices in all of our names.
Extra authorities of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires. This in distinction to the primary Republican president’s management to defend what he (Lincoln) referred to as a authorities “of the folks, by the folks and for the folks.”
The previous, not the latter, is what America voted for six weeks in the past. No marvel persons are unhappy and grieving and dropping out. Elections, as they are saying, have penalties.
However persons are additionally organizing to withstand and to collect and converse reality to energy. To awaken the religious warrior in themselves and their work worlds.
To be continued.
See Matthew Fox, Trump and the MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.
And Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine.
Banner Picture: “Donald Trump Inauguration Day protest in Seattle,” 2017. Plans for Inauguration Day 2025 protests are in movement. Picture by Scott Lum on Flickr.
How are you doing? Are you gathering up your power and powers of religious warriorhood to withstand and proceed giving beginning to goodness on this planet and within the physique politic and inspiring others to take action?
Really helpful Studying
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had all the time shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so usually used to unfold management and concern. Nevertheless, given at the moment’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for analyzing the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling writer Matthew Fox gives a brand new theology of evil that basically modifications the standard notion of excellent and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened remedy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Japanese custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to assume creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, writer of Quantum Theology: Non secular Implications of the New Physics
The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he finds ten metaphors, or archetypes, starting from the Inexperienced Man, an historical pagan image of our basic relationship with nature, to the Non secular Warrior….These timeless archetypes can encourage males to pursue their greater calling to connect with their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Each man on this planet ought to learn this e book — to not point out each girl who desires to know the struggles, usually unconscious, that form the boys they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, writer of The Left Hand of God
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