tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post6996138377789549759..comments2024-03-23T18:50:32.902-04:00Comments on Telling Secrets: I Hate HateElizabeth Kaetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-1874159998781907862010-06-16T22:32:19.971-04:002010-06-16T22:32:19.971-04:00I don't get it.
You publish a cartoon by Cox...I don't get it. <br /><br />You publish a cartoon by Cox and Forkum that draws a comparison between the Klan and Militant Islam, and you wonder whom in your little corner of New York would want to "kill the Jews"? <br /><br />Indeed, during the "Round Up the Usual Suspects" section of your post, your suspicion falls on one of the Enemies Of The People trotted out by lefties everywhere, the dreaded "Tea Baggers" (actually, they call themselves "Tea Partiers", but what's a cheap and derisive insult to a priest, eh?).<br /><br />Has the notion that you might have some militant Islamists about been considered by you?<br /><br />Oh, by the way, "Tea Baggers" is last months White House meme. They are now rolling out "Tea Klanners". Get with the program.section9https://www.blogger.com/profile/08956773307014115891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-13735233130049110972010-06-16T12:12:55.043-04:002010-06-16T12:12:55.043-04:00I, too, have no problem understanding hatred. Mos...I, too, have no problem understanding hatred. Most adults do indeed lead lives of "quiet desperation." Most are responsible for children, or parents, or others, who are directly affected by my success in a competitive society. If I don't get that job, or if I lose this one, or if someother setback occurs, those for whom I am responsible will suffer, and for most that's a hard, hard consequence.<br /><br />That alone doesn't make people hateful. But combine that quiet desparation with a cacaphony of voices assuring us that those difficulties can be attributed to this or that group, and of course hatred will result.<br /><br />By and large I don't think that we hate people because they threaten us; more, I see, we hate those who threaten those whom we love or those for whom we care. Those without ties neither love deeply nore hate deeply. Those who instigate hatred are often, also, those without deep ties themselves. But the resulting hatred is understandable, if unjustifiable (even if the group slanders have some modicum of truth).rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-24424269641927538722010-06-15T22:37:47.434-04:002010-06-15T22:37:47.434-04:00Ugh! This must be a theme today because on my way ...Ugh! This must be a theme today because on my way from the church to the bank, someone was parked near the church with Rush Limbaugh spewing hate very loudly from the radio and then on my way home, I passed what I now understand to be a LaRouche group at the DMV with signs comparing the President to Hitler and demanding he be impeached.Jane Priesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03538010409948644265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-48287632524798406292010-06-15T16:02:35.474-04:002010-06-15T16:02:35.474-04:00Mother Elizabeth,
I'm with you on the hate th...Mother Elizabeth,<br /><br />I'm with you on the hate thing, except I know that I still harbor some deep in my heart for a particular ethnic group that was at odds with mine and from whom I endured taunts and real violence when I was younger. Now, I have ministered to congregations made up mostly of that ethnicity and have been ministered to by clergy -- and laity, too!-- of the same. Its the Christian faith that is saving me from my hate. (I don't mean the white guilt indoctrination sessions that are put on in churches)<br /><br />But one thing-- isn't it unfair to tar "the teabaggers" with the ethnic/racial/religious hate brush? Don't check your brain/discernment capacity at the Democratic Party registration table.<br /><br />a fellow priestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-74570904170030791402010-06-15T12:31:31.557-04:002010-06-15T12:31:31.557-04:00Here's a couple of interesting sites, Elizabet...Here's a couple of interesting sites, Elizabeth:<br /><br />www.revisionistreview.blogspot.com<br /><br />www.mauricepinay.blogspot.com<br /><br />check them out and report back.seek the truthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-24969114780246064732010-06-15T12:04:43.619-04:002010-06-15T12:04:43.619-04:00I understand the kind of hate that is, I think, pa...I understand the kind of hate that is, I think, part of being human. It's that revulsion, sometimes mixed with some fear, of what I don't like or don't understand.<br /><br />I even understand the hate that results in the impulse to retaliate when someone has done a hateful thing to me or someone I love.<br /><br />I don't understand the kind of hate that leads one to do murder or to take action that would eliminate an entire race or ethnicity or group of people from the face of the earth.<br /><br />But, that's just me. And, yes, hate, forgiveness and letting go will be our companions on this early pilgrimage. I would like to become "wiser and better" long before I get too much closer to death but then again, I have always been such a dreamer.Elizabeth Kaetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-8562536829648229092010-06-15T11:21:20.733-04:002010-06-15T11:21:20.733-04:00So strange, Elizabeth. I understand hate. I feel i...So strange, Elizabeth. I understand hate. I feel it in myself sometimes. This does not mean I like it. But I don't hate it either. <br /><br />Someone 'holy' once talked of watching the self as if a snake trapped in a room with him.<br /><br />Hate is a signal. I could call it 'profound dislike' or 'antipathy'. I could hide hate under another word... <br /><br />But any emotion that create a sudden burst of violence in the depth of my guts has to receive its real name.<br /><br />Hate, forgiveness, letting go... all these will accompany till I die. Hopefully the closer I will get to death, the wiser and better I will become...<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />Blessings.claire bangasserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380558962103134334noreply@blogger.com