From 77fb582b43341fc6fdc256cf9832f75340b77a5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matěj Cepl Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:35:26 +0200 Subject: Add old pyblosxom posts. --- _posts/rorh-in-iraq.rst | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/rorh-in-iraq.rst (limited to '_posts/rorh-in-iraq.rst') diff --git a/_posts/rorh-in-iraq.rst b/_posts/rorh-in-iraq.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a9a696 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/rorh-in-iraq.rst @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +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 -- cgit