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Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.
Before the election I told myself that people had more sense than to elect a man whose supporters burn people alive as “witches,” and torch the churches and homes of people they don’t like.
even a man without an idea in his head is better than a man who means to lash us all back to his particular God the way Jesus lashed the money changers out of the temple.
His speeches during the campaign have been somewhat less inflammatory than his sermons. He’s had to distance himself from the worst of his followers.
I want to learn something new and unrelated to any of our troubles.
hidden within Change Is surprise, delight, Confusion, pain, Discovery, loss, Opportunity, and growth.
Christian America is made up of scary people, and I find it impossible to believe that they intend only to do good and to help others.
We still don’t know whose work this tongue cutting is, but we know that some Christian America types would be happy to silence all women.
Partnership is giving, taking, learning, teaching, offering the greatest possible benefit while doing the least possible harm. Partnership is mutualistic symbiosis. Partnership is life. Any entity, any process that cannot or should not be resisted or avoided must somehow be partnered. Partner one another. Partner diverse communities. Partner life. Partner any world that is your home. Partner God. Only in partnership can we thrive, grow, Change. Only in partnership can we live.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
We will do that. We will survive. I don’t yet know how. How is always a problem. But, in fact, we will survive.
When men have absolute power over women who are strangers, the men rape.
These men feast on our pain—and they call us parasites.
I have decided to stink like a corpse. I have decided that I would rather get a disease from being filthy than go on attracting the attentions of these men. I will be filthy. I will stink. I will pay no attention to my hair or my clothing.
So much agony caused, so much evil done in God’s name.
The working poor who love Jarret want to be fooled, need to be fooled. They scratch a living, working long, hard hours at dangerous, dirty jobs, and they need a savior. Poor women, in particular, tend to be deeply religious and more than willing to see Jarret as the Second Coming. Religion is all they have. Their employers and their men abuse them. They bear more children than they can feed. They bear everyone’s contempt.
