You want to promote Christian civility while courting Project 2025 organizations like Hillsdale College (they want others to be civil towards them, but those who disagree with them are condemned)?
The same is true for 'MUSLIM CIVILITY' or anything of the kind...
Christianism's indoctrination or manipulation is CERTAINLY NOT civl...
It is actually ABUSIVE because people TAKE ADVANTAGE of your YOUTH or HELPLESSNESS in order to MAKE you BELIEVE that you are a SINNER (which sounds nicer than the LABEL of SUBHUMAN) that needs to be SAVED (from being NORMAL actually).
And if you RESIST this EVIL then you are SUPPOSEDLY going to hell...
This is the point of existence where many people are becoming to get MESSED UP...
And, anyone else who prefer to stay out off ORGANISED RELIGION is also LABELLED as a SINNER or SUBHUMAN...
The following quote is timeless what humanity is concerned:
● 'When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or
I have read and liked your book. Your information is very interesting. I believe that we can oppose evil without becoming evil ourselves. This is a quote from Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) a young Jewish woman who was killed at Auschwitz: "....we have so much work to do on ourselves that we shouldn’t even be thinking of hating our so-called enemies. We are hurtful enough to one another as it is. And I don’t really know what I mean when I say that there are bullies and bad characters among our own people, for no one is really “bad” deep down. I should have liked to reach out to that [bully] with all his fears, I should have liked to trace the source of his panic, to drive him ever deeper into himself, that is the only thing we can do, ..., in times like these.It is the only thing we can do, ..., I see no alternative, each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate we add to this world makes it still more inhospitable.” (quoted in https://cac.org/daily-meditations/opposing-evil-without-becoming-it-2021-03-30/)
There was a lot of hate added to this world, this country, in the past year. There continues to be a lot of hate added. It needs to be called out when and where it happens, no matter whether it is "our" side or the so-called "other." This is a time when we should reach out to those who are doing things that are shameful and bullying, get beyond wanting to soothe them, and at least name those acts. Otherwise our children will hear our silence.
You want to promote Christian civility while courting Project 2025 organizations like Hillsdale College (they want others to be civil towards them, but those who disagree with them are condemned)?
Hallo there!
The word CHRISTIAN CIVILITY is a PARADOX...
The same is true for 'MUSLIM CIVILITY' or anything of the kind...
Christianism's indoctrination or manipulation is CERTAINLY NOT civl...
It is actually ABUSIVE because people TAKE ADVANTAGE of your YOUTH or HELPLESSNESS in order to MAKE you BELIEVE that you are a SINNER (which sounds nicer than the LABEL of SUBHUMAN) that needs to be SAVED (from being NORMAL actually).
And if you RESIST this EVIL then you are SUPPOSEDLY going to hell...
This is the point of existence where many people are becoming to get MESSED UP...
And, anyone else who prefer to stay out off ORGANISED RELIGION is also LABELLED as a SINNER or SUBHUMAN...
The following quote is timeless what humanity is concerned:
● 'When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or
a Christian or a European, or anything else, you
are being violent. Do you see why it is violent?
Because you are separating yourself
from the rest of mankind.
When you separate yourself by belief,
by nationality, by tradition, it breeds
violence. So a man who is seeking
to understand violence does not
belong to any country, to any
religion, to any political party
or partial system; he is
concerned with the total
understanding of mankind.'
--J. Krishnamurti
Pieter J (PJ)
I have read and liked your book. Your information is very interesting. I believe that we can oppose evil without becoming evil ourselves. This is a quote from Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) a young Jewish woman who was killed at Auschwitz: "....we have so much work to do on ourselves that we shouldn’t even be thinking of hating our so-called enemies. We are hurtful enough to one another as it is. And I don’t really know what I mean when I say that there are bullies and bad characters among our own people, for no one is really “bad” deep down. I should have liked to reach out to that [bully] with all his fears, I should have liked to trace the source of his panic, to drive him ever deeper into himself, that is the only thing we can do, ..., in times like these.It is the only thing we can do, ..., I see no alternative, each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate we add to this world makes it still more inhospitable.” (quoted in https://cac.org/daily-meditations/opposing-evil-without-becoming-it-2021-03-30/)
There was a lot of hate added to this world, this country, in the past year. There continues to be a lot of hate added. It needs to be called out when and where it happens, no matter whether it is "our" side or the so-called "other." This is a time when we should reach out to those who are doing things that are shameful and bullying, get beyond wanting to soothe them, and at least name those acts. Otherwise our children will hear our silence.
Very good article!