[Dialogue] {Disarmed} Re: Secondary Ethics

[Darrell Walker]

  John Epps said:
   The fact is, we are responsible to God for the World, not simply for keeping my delicate little hands clean.

  Darrell replies:
    My, my, my, but how arrogance does abound!  To think that the Creator of the Cosmos and this lovely planet delivered unto us, a mottly little crew, the responsibility to repair the errors of the Demiurge.  The problem of the second integrity is that it reflects arrogance.  Oh, yes, arrogance.  "Born to forge out of the darkest night signs of abundant life!"  We were going into the world and make the world like us.  Look at us and ask if that is the way the world should be.  I doubt it.  That is Bushian thinking.
    Perhaps the call is for us to grow beyond compassion and all its motives to fix other people, to make them like us.  For me, I have given up the vain attempt to fix other people.  I will content myself to go tomorrow morning to the kitchen of Loaves and Fishes and help prepare a meal for some hungry homeless folks.  And I will do it without guilt.
     Darrell Walker in Sacramento
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