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Hope at the Parliament of the World Religions
Seeing hundreds of people – including an Eastern Orthodox Patriarch, Pagans, Jews, Muslims, Buddhist nuns, Christian clergy – leap to their feet to give feminist theologian Sr. Joan Chittister a standing ovation, gives me hope for our world. (and Sr. Joan, by the way, rocks hard and long).
Hearing Anwar Ibrahim and Pal Aluwalia – prominent Muslim and Sikh thinkers – state unequivocally and clearly that any inferior or unequal position of women was strictly cultural and not part of their religions, gives me hope for our world. (I have heard this stated by feminist Muslim thinkers, but hearing it from these two respected men was heartening confirmation).
Seeing Native American Rights lawyer Steven T. Newcomb harshly challenging Catholic Bishop Peter Elliott in the question period of a panel and then seeing the two engaged in conversation when all was said and done, gives me hope for our world.
December 6 2009, 16:13:58 UTC 2 years ago
Hope is often under-appreciated these days...Perhaps more people need to do cultus to Spes, as well as just actually having it and attempting to instill it in others by their actions...But more the latter than the former.
December 6 2009, 22:20:02 UTC 2 years ago
Why
"Seeing Native American Rights lawyer Steven T. Newcomb harshly challenging Catholic Bishop Peter Elliott in the question period of a panel and then seeing the two engaged in conversation when all was said and done, gives me hope for our world."Why? If I was the representative of indigenous people that had been trounced for the past millenia by an organization run by sick, twisted, unsexed, vampiric fucks who feed off the live blood of women, children, and the planet will pushing a Vile codex of lies and hypocrisy I'd rather engage in spiritual Warfare then Interfaith Dialogue.
The Vaticans got the bucks and its alignment with Black Brothers to prop up it's decay. The sooner that pillar of puss falls, the better for the planet, indigenous people, and the world at large.
Not all questions of spiritual and metaphysical difference should be resolve in conversatoin. That, to me, when there is a striking difference in power seems a subsurvient position that won't get you anything but a smile and cotinued raping by your master. Malcom X understood this, and said clearly you can talk all you want with your Master, but he's still going to put you to work in the fields the next day. Until the Slave throws off his yoke, all the Dialogue in the world won't do you a damn bit of good.
December 6 2009, 23:04:14 UTC 2 years ago
Re: Why
I do not believe this. Perhaps the Bishop will have his mindset shifted.December 6 2009, 23:17:15 UTC 2 years ago
Belief
I know you don't. "Agree to disagree" as they say.December 7 2009, 03:08:07 UTC 2 years ago
December 7 2009, 15:21:41 UTC 2 years ago
Sr. Joan
I also hear Sr. Joan speak a few years back. She is amazing and inspiring. Also very smart.December 8 2009, 22:19:40 UTC 2 years ago
Good for them
"Seeing Native American Rights lawyer Steven T. Newcomb harshly challenging Catholic Bishop Peter Elliott in the question period of a panel and then seeing the two engaged in conversation when all was said and done, gives me hope for our world."Good for them, and any others who are willing to talk instead of playing cultural criminal poker. Beating the crap out of each other for what our great-grandparents, and their great-grandparents, did solves nothing, and usually only turns the oppressed into the oppressor.