Our
Views:
Some rules of writing entrap authors
into nonsense or meanness. Writers for the newspaper sometimes think
they have to climax a piece with a cute twist. “Sex remains popular [among
people who could care less about the prostitute],” was presented with a cruel
twist. “Sex remains popular [among prostitutes even though they risk death]” seems as bad.
Today’s
Thought. I
mean no offense to readers who love this long-standing feature. I am offended
by the absence balancing appreciation for trust and confidence in
the-objective-truth (I pay my subscription cost but may not always so subject
myself).
It’s a damn shame that John and Luke
attributed the word “hate” to Jesus. My Jesus did not utter that word.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Divinity
School Address, 1838, emersoncentral.com/divaddr.htm
, helped me to freedom from guilt that my Jesus does did not comport to
church teaching. I was so steeped in Baptist indoctrination that it took me
about 15 years to understand Emerson . . . and my Jesus. In fact, I had to
arrive at this moment to appreciate these ideas.
Responding to John 15:18, in public
connections behave with civic morality and enjoy the appreciation you receive.
The idea that someone could hate you because you are a Christian is preposterous.
Your religion is nobody’s business, because you practice civic morality:
public-integrity; civic justice. You neither impose nor accept force and always
uphold statutory law. You soul is nobody's business.
Luke 14:26 is perhaps worse. Luke’s
idea that there can be reasons to hate anyone in your family begs woe. And woe
comes when Luke’s hate-idea is practiced. Fidelity is the key to meaningful
life: Fidelity to the-indisputable-facts, self, immediate family, extended families, the
people, the nation, the world, and the universe, both respectively and
collectively.
Evangeline jailing (both Scott and
Friedman).
I agree.
And
it’s another evidence of first responders' civil rights denied. Policemen
are squeezed between controlling management-vigilantism above and reactionary
community-vigilantism below.
Reform needs to focus on legislators, judges and lawyers rather than first responders.
Reform needs to focus on legislators, judges and lawyers rather than first responders.
Obamacare
(Crane). I just hope you have no more health attacks. In the
meantime, think outside the box: Many people suffer because
of Obamacare. Let’s hope the best for them, too.
Urban
League (Panepinto). I agree, but those questions are
more for the people who pay the non-profit's bills.
Now, if you are questioning the system of
tax-free non-profits---if what you are suggesting is that a civic people stop
that tax dodge, I am with you 100%. And to balance the bargain, stop tax
exemptions for religious institutions, pure businesses deeply involved in the religion-government-partnerships that pick our pockets. When it comes to Together Baton Rouge and Together Louisiana, follow tax redistribution.
Michael
Gerson column. Looking for love seems a false quest: appreciate
life and the living beings and any appreciation you earn. Trust and commit to
the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood.
Practice fidelity to the-indisputable-facts, self, immediate family, extended
families, the people, the nation, the world, and the universe, both
respectively and collectively. Realize that this journey is your perhaps
85-year path to possible self-discovery: Freedom from all external constraints
and internal doubts about fidelity---the liberty to practice your preferences.
These are only ideas: I do not know the-objective-truth. I appreciate the ideas.
DA Moore (Jan. 8, Page 2B).
Don’t miss a representative man on radio at 4:00 PM Monday on 107.3 FM.
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