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+The Age of Irresponsibility
+###########################
+
+:status: draft
+:date: 2016-08-20T01:24:52
+:category: faith
+:tags: politics
+
+I was listening to the story_ on BBC how the British pensioners
+are forced by the fear of Brexit to move from Spain back to UK,
+because they are afraid Spanish government would stop paying them
+their pension when (and if) UK leaves EU. And that’s just
+because two classmates now in the Conservative Party were not
+able to sort out their issues in the reasonable manner.
+
+Mr. Donald Trump suggested abolition of NATO promises to its
+members in the Baltic states, just to make himself look like even
+more caring for the ordinary people. Besides, there are rumors_,
+that he runs his candidacy just to resolve some of his personal
+issues and to make more money for covering his bankrupted
+business, and that he actually does not want to be the President
+of US at all.
+
+We have here in Czechia a president, where nobody knows for
+certain why he is a president at all. Perhaps as a revenge,
+perhaps to prove himself, perhaps just to make happy somebody to
+whom he is tied by some (probably not very nice) favors. We
+don’t know the reasons, however we can observe an older rather
+sick a bit drunk gentleman who spreads around himself hatred,
+insults, and attacks on everybody just to make himself more
+visible (and perhaps to make somebody behind the scenes happy).
+
+What is still the most shocking on all this is that I am still
+shocked at all. I don’t want to put myself on too high a horse,
+but I don’t know how not to look like it. I just cannot
+comprehend mind of people who seem to be completely immune to
+their conscience, who for the most trivial selfish reasons change
+the fate of completely innocent people and these politicians
+don’t seem to notice at all.
+
+I don’t think I have much to say about this phenomenon, just
+recording I observe it.
+
+.. _story:
+    http://news.bbc.co.uk/....
+    
+.. _rumors:
+    http://huffpo?
diff --git a/drafts/sharks-jellyfish-bad-news.rst b/drafts/sharks-jellyfish-bad-news.rst
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ linked `position paper of Vineyard USA on LGBT issues`_.
     http://vineyardusa.org/site/files/PositionPaper-VineyardUSA-Pastoring_LGBT_Persons.pdf
 
 First completely nonsensical nitpick: as far as I know (and I may
-be wrong, but if I recall correctly, I read in some book by
+be wrong, but if I recall correctly I read it in some book by
 Philipe Cousteau) sharks have to swim because they don’t have
 operculum so they have to make water flow through their gills,
 otherwise they suffocate_ . Not that it would matter that much
@@ -24,34 +24,69 @@ for Dave’s argument.
 .. _suffocate:
     https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090820085118AAaL3jP
 
-But to the more interesting stuff.
-
-From the position paper:
+But to the more interesting stuff. From the position paper:
 
    William Shakespeare in his play, Twelfth Night, said this: Be
    not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve
    greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
 
-This is funny. Did they actually read or see the Twelfth Night?
-Do they recognize that whole this quotation was not meant
-seriously but just as a bait for Malvolio? And if we ignore this
-strangeness, when following their argument, they could say just
-as easily that they want to discuss LGBT issues, because
-everybody else does it. I am not sure that it is the right
-reason, but anyway.
+This is funny. Did they actually read the Twelfth Night or did
+they see it in a theater? Do they recognize that this whole
+quotation was not meant seriously but just as a bait for
+Malvolio? And if we ignore this strangeness, when following their
+argument, they could say just as easily that they want to discuss
+LGBT issues, because everybody else does it. I am not sure that
+it is the right reason, but anyway.
 
 OK, this is too long. I won’t have time to read all ninety
 pages. So back to Dave.
 
 I completely accept his argument that we should live in the
-centered set, but it seems to me he still misses the point. What
-should I say to my homosexual friend (or for me more likely to
-some strong supporter of gay rights, I don’t know much anybody
-who would be openly homosexual)? And what to do with 1.Timothy
-1:10 or 1.Corinthians 6:9f? If
+centered set, but it seems to me it is a bit difficult to see the
+proper point of the post without getting lost in the juicy world
+of the relationship between homosexuality and the Christian
+faith. One strikingly interesting thing (at least for me) is that
+the whole post is completely meta-discussion. It does not discuss
+the Dave’s actual opinion on homosexuality itself at all. It
+seems that Dave has some homosexual friends, so he has to have at
+least some positive attitude towards them, but there is no
+biblical discussion on the matter itself. I have missed this when
+reading the post for the first time, and I got completely lost in
+the fiery discussion of the point which was not there at all.
+
+Let me thus start from somewhere else. We just returned a couple
+of days ago from a very friendly visit to our very conservative
+Christian friends. Although I tried to avoid it, I made some
+unfortunate comment about the Muslims and Christians praying
+together in my “local” Catholic church (of course, not being
+a Catholic makes this term a bit nonsensical). The result was an
+explosion of rather unbelievably harsh and ungrateful
+declarations about Muslims, among which the persuasion that
+Muslims and Christians praying together is just a masquerade for
+Muslims to achieve their dominance […]. It seemed to me very
+much like the antisemitism by Chesterton (or any proper
+Englishman of that time, I suppose). We can see how these
+attitudes could lead to Auschwitz, but it is unfair to judge them
+through the lenses of gas chambers, because they really did not
+know about the Holocaust, and they would be quite certainly
+against it with all their might. So, most of what my Christian
+friends talk vis-a-vis Muslims is absolutely horrible and
+despicable, but most of these people know nothing about the
+racism and they have never seen it in its most ugly ends, so they
+still feel free to play with those most horrible ideas, not
+knowing that it is an dynamite just ready to explode.
+
+However, only now, when I read the Dave’s post for the second
+time, I have recognized how contemporary and acutely needed it is
+now. And how much, by living among the bounded Christians, I lost
+a bit of the healthy perspective.
+
+security of the bounded set
+
+---------------------------
 
 One of the most important things which helped me to understand my
-attitude towards homosexuality was proper understaning of what
+attitude towards homosexuality was proper understanding of what
 the sin is.
 
 I understand the centered set thinking correctly, than obvious