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1.02.2021

Christianity and the social crisis, rauschenbusch

 

.... Six decades after the

book’s original release, Martin Luther King Jr. would write, “In

the early 50’s I read Walter Rauschenbusch’s Christianity and

the Social Crisis, a book which left an indelible imprint on my

thinking.” ​I am Walter Raus...


.... The belief in a future life and

future reward and punishment was almost absent in Hebrew religion.

To live to an honored old age, to see his children and children’s

children, to enjoy the fruit of his labor in peace under his own

vine and fig tree—that ​was all the heaven to which the pious Israelite

looked for.....


.... As long as

the people were falsely optimistic, the prophets persisted in

destroying their illusions. When the people were despairing, the...


.... Beyond

the question of economic distribution lies the question of moral

relations; and beyond the moral relations to men lies the question

of the religious communion with that spiritual reality in which we

live and move and have our deepest being—with God, the Father of

our spirits. Jesus had realized the life of God in the soul of man

and the life of man in the love of God. That was the real secret of

his life, the well-spring of his purity, his compassion, his

unwearied courage, his unquenchable idealism: he knew the Father.

But if he had that greatest of all possessions, the real key to the

secret of life, it was his highest social duty to share it and help

​others

to gain what he had. He had to teach men to live as children in the

presence of their Father, and no longer as slaves cringing before a

despot. He had to show them that the ordinary life of selfishness

and hate and anxiety and chafing ambition and covetousness is no

life at all, and that they must enter into a new world of love and

solidarity and inward contentment. There was no service that he

could render to men which would equal that. All other help lay in

concentric circles about that redemption of the spirit and flowed

out from it....


.... Jesus had realized the life of God in the soul of man

and the life of man in the love of God. That was the real secret of

his life, the well-spring of his purity, his compassion, his

unwearied courage, his unquenchable idealism: he knew the Father.

But if he had that greatest of all possessions,

The tiniest remotely possible cultivation of soul is our only work for joy.

 It seems that every year is trying to teach me this and I learned a little bit more each time with my failure to do otherwise, but my goodness it's slow.

My current dashboard to help me develop myself and maintain focus in the work.




The Myriad pitfalls in finding, establishing, true community.

* Ignoring dead balls, silence where the passionate recognition response needs to be.
* Confusing intellect excitement for soul excitement.
* Ignoring passionate action for words, our passions are seen in actions not words.
* Overlooking history of action.
* Thinking material change would release soul.
* Imagining that personal, ego interests, are finite as opposed to infinite.

* Oblivious to the absence of dying for true Community, dying for the world.
* Projection, projection, projection.... Projecting one's values on to the other clouding the truth.
* Passion for the external, the material, not the internal. Looking for answers accordingly. Building accordingly.
* Absence of, resistance to, Global all inclusive mission.

* Non deep envy of lsgiabeing.com
* Dying for Joy.
* Attachment to this world, or any of its contents.

12.28.2020

The most important book James has ever read oh, maybe the most important book ever written.

 


36000 miles James has been cycling an impossible vehicle.

 No discredit to Saul and maybe notice credit to James.

Imagine a conventional racing bicycle two wheels and everything is normal except for one thing. Instead of the seat being on a rigid bracket with no movement instead it is on a relatively fluid ball joint such that unless at every moment of the cycle the body's muscles are used to create what they fixed seat was able to create by way of stability oh, well, that's where James has been. But his wounded left leg forced him to find something different and no credit to him he found it today

Some time ago maybe Colorado or into Utah the notion of the pretty mm fighting such a planted position that it seemed that it was on a bicycle seat was helpful but not sufficiently helpful and after

Martin Luther King jr. On nonviolence.

Pilgrimage to Nonviolence - Peace,
https://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/pilgrimageNV.htm