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Teresa of Avila on Truth;
Murdoch, GOAT of Lying 02/25/2023 |
Mr. Murdoch, Father of Fox News and Father of Lies may be a GOAT— Greatest of All Time–in his chosen profession of reducing journalism to lies for the single purpose of appealing to the
resentments and racism, hurt and lie-mongering of citizens in order to make profits. |
He may go down in history as the “Greatest of All Time” in deceiving the masses and rendering them addicted to his
lies. What is evident is that in his role as media mogul in three countries, Australia, Great Britain and the United States, Lies, not Truth, has been his motto. And destruction of democracy has been his
footprint. | |
At the same time, he is a Father of Lies because he plays father to tiny-souled people, giving out salaries of $45 million per year to Mr. Hannity and $35 million per year to Mr. Tucker to carry on their on-the-air lies which, when the cameras are turned off, they themselves confess are lies. All this is in e-mails we can read from current court proceedings. Paying people 35 and 45 million dollars to lie certainly qualifies as
GOAT. Hannity and Tucker did not sell their souls cheaply. |
St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582), Doctor of the Church, mystic, nun and reformer, led a movement of spiritual and monastic renewal, reforming the Carmelite
Orders of both women and men. Painting by François Gérard, 1827. Wikimedia
Commons | So Murdoch the father of Fox News and his media children ought to be meditating on Lent and Ash Wednesday this season and asking, near the end of his life: What has it all been about?
What have I given back and to whom and with what intentions? What good have I done? Instead, his legacy is the sordid distortion and destruction of a valuable and needed profession, journalism, and of democracy itself. |
In contrast, the mystics have a lot to say about truth. St. Teresa of Avila says that we
should “draw out the truth in everything…God is supreme Truth; and to be humble is to walk in truth.” Can the super-rich and super powerful walk in truth? Or at least try to? Can all of us—and especially those in the
powerful and needed vocation of journalism—aspire for Truth? That is, at least try to seek out Truth, to be hunters and gatherers (very healthy masculine archetype) for Truth? Or is Truth too much for them to
grasp. St. Teresa teaches us more about truth: |
God is everlasting truth. I am reminded of Pilate, how he was questioning our Lord when during the Passion he asked him ‘What is
truth?’ and of the little we understand about this Supreme Truth. Let us conclude that in order to live in conformity with our God and spouse it will be well if we always study diligently how to walk in this truth. Maybe a retreat and time with the mystics who praise Truth might be in order for Murdoch and his | “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” Photo by Jose on Flickr. |
company along with the rest of
us. Truth is not easy to come by for anyone—and evidently not for overly paid media people barking and spreading lies. |
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The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred
Masculine To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Spiritual
Warrior….These timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to connect to their deepest selves and to reinvent the world. “Every man on this planet should read this book — not to mention every woman who wants to understand the struggles, often unconscious, that shape the men they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of The
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