French novelist and Nobel laureate François Mauriac, who died 9/ 1970, was haunted by the moral failure that allowed his fellow citizens to collaborate in the deportation of the Jews and the capacity of Christians to look away.
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“Our hidden life with Christ ought to have some bearing on our lives as citizens. We cannot approve ... in the name of Caesar what the Lord condemns... or curses, whether it be failure to honor our word, exploitation of the poor, police torture, or regimes of terror.”
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His last work was a meditation on the life of Jesus, noting that God chose to be incarnate in a poor man, a worker, and a Jew. What would our world look like,he asked, if Christians gave proper credit to these facts?
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“All tyrannies are founded upon contempt for man. When this temptation to contempt overcomes us, we must remember that Christ was a man like us and that He loved us. If He was one of us, then every man, no matter how miserable he be, has a capacity for God.”
This passage in quotes is somewhat consistent with the both the messaging in the Gnostic gospels, as well as a beautiful translation of the very flexible ‘namaste’ as: ‘I honor the place in you where God resides’.
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I think we must accept that the capacity for God has in some of us is irretrievable. Hitler killed millions and committed suicide to avoid accountability. Trump will not and incapable of change at this point in his unloved life.
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