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In the last piece of this series I’d like to share about how our reckless reactions to terrorism negatively influence our witness to the world. How hysteria and hostility smother our witness We fear loss of power, money, safety, so we wrap ourselves in insulation. What we should fear is suffocating in the insulation. Scott …
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We’ve been talking about hysteria, hatred and vengeance as inappropriate reactions to the trauma of terrorism in our world. These play right into the hands of the psychopathic terrorizers and only make the circumstances worse. Now if we must be utilitarian about it, how do these reactions affect us? What does a hateful and inhospitable …
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Last time I talked about how hysteria and hostility tend to dominate American minds and mouths in relation to terrorism, and how this plays right into the plans of the Captain of “Team Hate.” When we think and talk the talk of the hysterical we’re tossing it up right over the plate and into the …
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In Parts 1 and 2 we’ve talking about name-calling and its harmful effects on both the name-called, the name caller, and everyone who hears the names that people are called. Here are a few more concluding thoughts of mine on the subject. Please share some of your thoughts. Labels make it easier to hurt …
We’ve covered a bunch of ground since we began our Good Samaritan talks. We’ve looked at how there is no more Ideal Samaritan than Jesus, how, in stark contrast to him we’re all pretty much Inadequate Samaritans with quite a replete repertoire of excuses for it, and then how we might get on a trajectory …
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