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+category:
+    - faith
+title: My first political blog
+date: 2005-06-17T21:23:00
+---
+
+Oh well, I tried to avoid falling into trap of commenting publicly all
+the stuff I have no clue about, but I cannot avoid thinking about
+politics, when I have finally found `Richard Roth’s quotation on pain`_:
+
+    According to the Franciscan priest Richard Rohr, spirituality is not
+    for people who are trying to avoid hell; it is for people who have
+    been through hell. In many ways, spirituality is about what we do
+    with our pain. And the truth is, if we don’t transform it, we will
+    transmit it.
+
+(I know it is second-hand quotation, but I haven’t found anything
+better, and this cite is repeated so many times over the web, that I
+assume it is reasonably correct).
+
+I was listening to the `Christopher and Dorothy’s sermon about raising
+children`_, where they quoted this claim by Rohr, and so I have finally
+searched for it on the Web. I found it quoted many times, but I have
+never found the original. However, I found one interesting `article by
+Rohr about post-09/11 America`_.
+
+When I was cooking a dinner I was thinking about it, and one thing which
+came to me very clear was thinking about Iraq and Afghanistan. How
+actually there is much about transmitting pain in invading Iraq and how
+little of true transformation happened in the United States after 09/11
+(transformation meaning especially μετάνοια—changing the ways we think
+about the world). And in order that I would not be accussed of
+anti-Americanism, then I have to say that other thing which came to my
+mind in the same moment was doubts about the reasons why the Central
+European countries (“New Europe” of Mr. Rumsfeld) participated in the
+invasion to Iraq. It seems to me that there is something about cynical
+calculation of safe playing on the same side as the biggest guy on the
+playing field, maybe even subserviency to the stronger guy.
+
+However, despite writing this I am not sure, that whole Iraq campaign is
+necessarily bad decision—besides getting rid of the Saddam Hussain,
+whole Middle East may be really shaken up to reform itself to more
+democracy and eliminate the Islam fundamentalism in the long run. Just
+that not all reasons for doing this were noble and pure. Who knows about
+the future?
+
+.. _`Richard Roth’s quotation on pain`:
+    http://thecorner.typepad.com/bc/2004/04/transform_not_t.html
+.. _`Christopher and Dorothy’s sermon about raising children`:
+    http://sermons.cambridgevineyard.com/050612-sermon.mp3
+.. _`article by Rohr about post-09/11 America`:
+    http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/2185.htm