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Permalink Reply by Forrest Curo on 2nd mo. 26, 2012 at 8:26pm

"... There is a kind of stridency that I’m less and less comfortable with as I get older.  It’s not because of the content, it’s because of the style.  The style is very often informed by people who have emotional stuff they haven’t worked out.  So they project their anger, they project their rage at the world which really has to do with their own stuff.  I think this gets in the way... "

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Permalink Reply by Forrest Curo on 2nd mo. 27, 2012 at 10:39am

The modern Quaker Fox quote doesn't quite get it.

The essence of Christianity (paraphrasing Jesus' two 'commandments') is that we need to:

recognize God as God. [~"I have no enemies," says God in a Raymond Smullyan dialogue. "I have people who think they're My enemies, but they don't know Me. To know Me is to love me."~]

And recognize our neighbor, our enemy, that awful person 'there'-- as myself.

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