Embracing Life But I say to you that you should not resist evil. (St. Matthew 5:39) You have heard that it is said, Be kind to your friend, and hate your enemy. But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless anyone who curses you, do good to anyone who hates you, and pray for those who carry you away by force and persecute you. (St. Matthew 5:43-44) So that you may become sons of your Father, who is in heaven, who causes his sun to shine upon the good and the bad, and who pours down his rain upon the just and the unjust. (St. Matthew 5:45) Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21) We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other. (Luciano de Crescenzo) Nor would it be good for us to be freed from the thrust of anxiety. For the struggle with our environment is a part of our heritage, a part of the complex adventure of being human. (Ardis Whitman, in Reader’s Digest) The best response to being offended: Everyone, apparently, is deeply offended, said Bill Maher. In the past year, Americans have claimed to be and appalled” by the insensitivity of Hank Williams Jr., “shocked Cee Lo Green, Don Imus, the Super Bowl halftime show, and just about every partisan utterance. Conservatives are sputtering with fury that 22 years ago, Barack Obama hugged Derrick Bell, a law professor who taught that we lived in a racist country. Liberals are out to drive Rush Limbaugh off the radio for calling a Georgetown law student a “slut.” Rather than trying to force people who offend us to away forever,” I “go have a better idea: Let’s declare an amnesty on feigned outrage. If you see or hear something you don’t like, the page or flip the dial.” I “turn find Limbaugh obnoxious, but I have coexisted with him comfortably by never listening to him, except when idling at a red light next to a pickup
Embracing Life But I say to you that you should not resist evil. (St. Matthew 5:39) You have heard that it is said, Be kind to your friend, and hate your enemy. But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless anyone who curses you, do good to anyone who hates you, and pray for those who carry you away by force and persecute you. (St. Matthew 5:43-44) So that you may become sons of your Father, who is in heaven, who causes his sun to shine upon the good and the bad, and who pours down his rain upon the just and the unjust. (St. Matthew 5:45) Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21) We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other. (Luciano de Crescenzo) Nor would it be good for us to be freed from the thrust of anxiety. For the struggle with our environment is a part of our heritage, a part of the complex adventure of being human. (Ardis Whitman, in Reader’s Digest) The best response to being offended: Everyone, apparently, is deeply offended, said Bill Maher. In the past year, Americans have claimed to be “shocked and appalled” by the insensitivity of Hank Williams Jr., Cee Lo Green, Don Imus, the Super Bowl halftime show, and just about every partisan utterance. Conservatives are sputtering with fury that 22 years ago, Barack Obama hugged Derrick Bell, a law professor who taught that we lived in a racist country. Liberals are out to drive Rush Limbaugh off the radio for calling a Georgetown law student a “slut.” Rather than trying to force people who offend us to “go away forever,” I have a better idea: Let’s declare an amnesty on feigned outrage. If you see or hear something you don’t like, “turn the page or flip the dial.” I find Limbaugh obnoxious, but I have coexisted with him comfortably by never listening to him, except when idling at a red light next to a pickup
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