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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Pat Rogers

    That was a fine piece of discussion. But let's look forward to next Sunday and the Sunday after and focus your minds on those readings too please. Many thanks for joining in like this and livening up

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    #17, 18. In the plight of the homeless, the trafficked, those displaced by climate change, those queuing at food banks today - and children in places like Syria disfigured by munitions made in western

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    The Psalms are quite obsessed with "enemies" and "evildoers" and resort to bloodthirsty cursing in the parts left out of the Breviary. Here is Har Dayal (The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    I think the language of Luke "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" is preferable to that of John, "You are of your father the devil" and to that of Matthew, "His blood be upon us and

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Nonetheless, scriptural and mainstream Buddhism remains a very efficacious medicine-chest for a sanatio in radice of the mental and physical violence that has been so prevalent in our tradition since

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    # 13: ‘The portrayal of the Jews as a “lynch mob” in a text written 70 years after the dimly remembered events is a harshness that is also likely to be unjust.’ This formulation is gratuitou

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    #11 Re Buddhism and violence, there is an interesting Wikipedia article on this at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence N.B. I know that Wikipedia varies in credibility, but am intrig

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    "Surely Girardian analysis is in itself a rebuttal of the charge that the NT is anti-Semitic, Joe – in that Girard categorises ALL scapegoating – including the crucifixion of Jesus AND all Christi

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    #10 Surely Girardian analysis is in itself a rebuttal of the charge that the NT is anti-Semitic, Joe - in that Girard categorises ALL scapegoating - including the crucifixion of Jesus AND all Christia

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Would we dare to apply Girardian analysis to the harsh language directed against individuals in most New Testament texts? I don't say the harsh language is inspired by rivalry; just that we cannot sa

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