Congratulations and best wishes to you and your wife, Joe. Thanks for this piece on Pope Francis to you all. It is painful to see people yielding to divisive politics, whether of the left, or of the right. Judging people is always an arrogant choice. No one knows anybody else so completely and in sufficient depth to affirm anything, as i…
Congratulations and best wishes to you and your wife, Joe. Thanks for this piece on Pope Francis to you all. It is painful to see people yielding to divisive politics, whether of the left, or of the right. Judging people is always an arrogant choice. No one knows anybody else so completely and in sufficient depth to affirm anything, as if there was no room for mistakes. Why is it so difficult to avoid judging the people? Judging their creeds, ideas, behaviors is always preferable. Anger might be justified, for instance, the reactive anger of a mistreated person. But language is naturally equivocal; thus, clarifications are needed before reacting as if language could be inerrantly interpreted with absolute certainty. Throwing anger around may be a necessity, sometimes, even urgent, but ill-intended anger against groups, generalizing, is like racist and sexist discrimination against unknown people. That is likely a fanatical behavior that may be psychotic.
Congratulations and best wishes to you and your wife, Joe. Thanks for this piece on Pope Francis to you all. It is painful to see people yielding to divisive politics, whether of the left, or of the right. Judging people is always an arrogant choice. No one knows anybody else so completely and in sufficient depth to affirm anything, as if there was no room for mistakes. Why is it so difficult to avoid judging the people? Judging their creeds, ideas, behaviors is always preferable. Anger might be justified, for instance, the reactive anger of a mistreated person. But language is naturally equivocal; thus, clarifications are needed before reacting as if language could be inerrantly interpreted with absolute certainty. Throwing anger around may be a necessity, sometimes, even urgent, but ill-intended anger against groups, generalizing, is like racist and sexist discrimination against unknown people. That is likely a fanatical behavior that may be psychotic.