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2017-09-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

Ask Matt Labash: How to Make Peace Over Trump and the NFL Kneelers

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Posted by JohnQC 2017-09-27 11:06|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 The realist in me fears that it might be later than we think.

Were anyone thinking.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-27 15:34|| 2017-09-27 15:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet another commentator writing a history-free and context-free screed, stretching to grasp the role of impartial observer.

Tea Party anyone?

I recall the efforts to remain civil in the 1970's when the techniques being practiced today were first developed to stop the pro-life movement. Patience and courtesy totally wasted on the unworthy, like tossing pearls to swine.

I made a very interesting observation a few days ago: the Aramaic word for "Enemy" entirely incorporates, as the base word, the Aramaic word for "Enmity": Thus, when Jesus said to love your enemy, He was actually objecting to the enmity you would have to have, to qualify to have an enemy. There is a difference between HAVING an enemy and BEING an enemy: If they hate you without a cause, then you are THEIR enemy, but they are not YOUR enemy if you don't first have enmity toward them.

The upshot is that Jesus was forbidding enmity, but did not forbid the observation that someone has enmity toward you, and thus is dangerous in the same way a hungry bear or Lion would be dangerous (He did that all the time, and modified his behavior to avoid danger). You can sympathize with a hungry bear, but you don't give it what it wants if what it wants is YOU for dinner.

I got this while reading the Book of Esther: Mordecai did not have any enmity toward Haman, just no respect, probably because Haman was the kind of guy who, when disrespected, embraced and welcomed enmity.

Posted by Ptah 2017-09-27 19:13|| 2017-09-27 19:13|| Front Page Top

#3 That was lovely, Ptah, and a very useful way of approaching the subject. I have missed you thinking aloud, but presumably you have other, more urgent projects nowadays.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-09-27 21:20|| 2017-09-27 21:20|| Front Page Top

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