<div dir="ltr">Hey Art,<div><br></div><div>I loved your reflection as well for this Sunday's Mass it was very powerful and helps to illustrate how we as humans are so quick to judge others and to break into tribes of who belongs and who doesn't. I like your reference to Proverbs too Allan. Sorry I missed today was able to attend the No War with Russia rally in front of the US Consulate on University Ave maybe thirty to fifty people which was good to see in spite of the cold temperatures.</div><div><br></div><div>Let us continue to work and pray for peace!</div><div> </div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 2:58 PM Allan Baker via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi Art;<div><br></div><div>I like your reflection on this Sunday’s lectionary passages.</div><div>I heard you re-phrasing some of the content in this morning’s discussion about people on the margins.</div><div><br></div><div>I’m n to sure that I would agree with the statement about the omnipotence of God. That’s another matter though.</div><div><br></div><div>As for your reference to Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity, the Book of Proverbs contain many aphorisms about people who are referred to as “fools”. </div><div>One of my favourites is 18:2</div><div>“A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,</div><div>But only in expressing his opinion.” (RSV)</div><div><br></div><div>Stay hopeful;</div><div>Allan</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 29, 2022, at 12:36 PM, Arthur Blomme via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca" target="_blank">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>
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<br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Hi all.<br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Below is
my reflection for this Sunday. I think that it speaks to a
reality beyond left and right. Following it is a short video
essay on Bonhoeffer.<br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Art
Blomme <br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span>Jesus Encounters Mob Madness</span></b><b><span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>In this
Sunday’s gospel Jesus encounters the same mob madness that
precipitated his
crucifixion. Luke continues the story from last Sunday where the
people of
Nazareth are “amazed at Jesus’ gracious word. His message is
from Isaiah. “Give
sight to the blind” … liberation and acceptance to the
marginalized and “good
news to the poor”. In essence it is a proclamation of universal
inclusivity or
catholicity.<span> </span>All peoples
are the chosen
people of God.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>The
Nazarenes spoke highly of him recognizing him as a member of
their tribe.<span> </span>When Jesus
exposes their ethnocentrism or
tribal ideology their adulation turns to rage.<span>
</span>With the Jews as with many ethnic groups, they believe in
their moral
superiority.<span> </span>They are
the chosen people
of God.<span> </span>They create
their identity
against the backdrop of fear for the other.<span>
</span>When Jesus provides scriptural evidence that the widow an
outsider from
Siden is chosen and another outsider Nasman from Syria is chosen
the crowd
gathered turns furious and they attempt to throw Jesus over the
cliff.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Luke
identifies a characteristic of human society that has occurred
repeatedly in
the history of our civilization with the burning of witches and
heretics, the
gassing at Auschwitz, other genocides and war after war in
modern and
ancient history. Society protects its delusion of moral
superiority by
destroying the messenger. Karl Jung says of this phenomenon; “It
is not empire
nor earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer, but man himself, who
is man’s
greatest danger to man; for the simple reason that there are no
adequate
protections against psycho epidemics which are definitely more
devastating than
the worst natural catastrophes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Luke
identifies this social madness as the great enemy of the
catholic kingdom of
God.<span> </span>It is the darkness
residing in our
hearts that can erupt in a fit of emotional violence that can
exceed the level
of vigilance- to which we are capable of as individuals.<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>The God
of love and creation is all powerful.<span>
</span>The antidote for this madness lies in the Paul’s first
epistle to the
Corinthians.<span> </span>“Love is
patient. Love is
kind… It does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the
truth… when I
was a child I used to talk as a child, think as a child reason
as a child when
I became a man, I put aside childish things”. To be an adult is
to discard our
need to feel morally superior to the other. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5pt;line-height:normal"><span>Arthur
Blomme<br>
Jan 27 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5pt;line-height:normal"><br>
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous
than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or
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