[Dialogue] Sunny re Kerry's Wife

[Karl Hess]

David - your comment brings up something I'm wrestling with also. 
Just exactly do we mean by 'wonderful human being'?  Presumably what 
our culture (bible=the world) says.  She works, doesn't do drugs, has 
respectable friends (unlike Jesus), lives in a nice neighborhood, 
maybe even goes to church and helps out at a food pantry.

What criteria would someone seriously examining the scripture come up 
with.  I've just been rereading Matthew Fox' 'Compassion'.  He talks 
about how our culture has dumbed down the biblical meaning - actively 
serving those one has compassion for, like the good Samaritan - to 
where it just means pity. (I'm sure those who passed on the other 
side were very sorry for the fallen Jew.)

I have two brothers who are wonderful human beings.  We can have fun 
conversations about both religion and politics, so long as I don't 
start talking about what they actually do, about the people who are 
actually suffering and dying.    I'm getting unwilling to have 
conversations confined in these boxes. And I'm getting very low on 
friends - got to look elsewhere.

Karl

>To David Dunn:  Thank you for wrestling out loud with issues a number of us
>have.  My middle daughter is a wonderful human being but has ruled out any
>conversation about religion and politics.  Closes off.  So, I agree. 
>The issue is
>real.  We do need to face into it as firmly as possible.   David Reese
>
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