From the beginning men used God to justify the
unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political
dispute are always wrong.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I have been thinking today about extremism
In general I am against it
Political
Religious
I am against food fanaticism (sorry)
In general I am for the middle way
which is an old an honored path
it is not that there is no place for extreme
Jesus was extreme
and called for an extreme way of life
servanthood
death of ego
sacrificial giving
unconditional love
a difficult way for sure
and what have we done with his call to be
“ordinary radicals” (Shane Claiborne)?
we have moved to
extreme hate
exclusion
judgment
extreme enmeshment with the cultural status quo
we have even decided that greed is OK
many of those who say they follow Jesus
are now willing to follow a person who is the antithesis of
all Jesus stood for
extremely
Those who would be progressive followers of Jesus have now
become
as pious and rigid as those they just
we do not handle extremism well, and
it appears that we are willing to adopt any form of
extremism except one
extreme love
Oh beloved one
deliver us from ourselves
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