Status Updates From Globalization, Gender, and ...

Mercifully it's over. Enough postmodernism, anti colonialism & garden variety leftism to last me a while!

Here we go again ... Abortion & women's empowerment going hand in hand. Great.

If this wasn't assigned I'd stop now. Mentioning Karl Barth as writing during the Nazi period for no other reason than guilt by association... awful.

God, why!? Ugh 4 pages in I already hate it.

"These acts, though terribly real, have been sanitized by becoming symbols. They have been stripped of their horror by being invested with religious meaning. They have been justified and thereby exonerated as part of a religious template that is even larger than myth and history. They are elements of a ritual scenario that makes it possible for the people involved to experience safely the drama of a cosmic war."

"Religion has fueled alienation and conflict ... exacerbated intolerance, injustice and oppression. Some of the ghastliest atrocities have happened in the name of religion. It need not be so if we can learn the obvious: that no religion can hope to have a monopoly on God, on goodness, virtue and truth."

Because of sanctioned ignorance in our learning... diverse groups are not equal in entering dialogue. The dominant group is not required to know the subjugated knowledge of the marginalized groups. Therefore, a de-centering of the dominant group is essential.

"The majority of the God's poor are non-Christians, and we cannot achieve peace without understanding their symbols and visions for life; without collaborating with them for concrete action"