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Letter to President Biden 07/02/2024 |
Dear President Biden, Like many who watched the presidential debate on Thursday last week, I was dismayed by your performance. As a person who is your elder by a few years, I want to be candid with you and Jill and say people our age should not be running for
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The day after your sorry performance you went to North Carolina and gave a more convincing presentation and in it you said very clearly, “I know the difference between right and wrong.” I urge you in that vein to step out of the presidential race because to step aside is the right thing to do and
to stay in is wrong. |
“I know that when you get knocked down you get back up.” – President Joe Biden acknowledges shaky debate performance against the First Felon. CNA |
It is wrong because it could readily throw the election to a serial liar and Neo-fascist candidate who is running a neo-fascist race complete with a plan, “2025” to deconstruct our democracy. That plan articulates programs that will kill our planet as we know it, eliminate public education as we know it, pile more and more debt on middle class Americans and allow billionaires and corporations to get away with paying little or no taxes and continue to dictate the
course of tax rates and loopholes and the entire judicial branch where they are so well represented at the once-supreme Court today. |
Mika Brzezinski interviews Republican political consultant Stuart Stevens on his New York Times op-ed and the way forward for Democrats after the first debate. MSNBC. | The fiery vitriol against migrants will increase and mass arrests of migrants and containing them in giant holding camps is being planned. As well as the take-over of government administration which will be handled not by experts
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their field but by the sole test of loyalty to a single leader. All this by the same people at the Heritage Foundation that gave us the current six far-right supreme court justices who seem oblivious to any ethics whatsoever. Clearly, these people—led by billionaire and out of the closet Opus Dei operative
Leonardo Leo–know what they are doing and have been planning for decades for what is now going on at the Supreme Court in throwing out established precedents such as Roe v. Wade and removing brakes on corporate money in elections and gutting rules that science and not politicians should have the last word in EPA and FDA and other administrative decision making. And slow walking Trump's trial for the January 6 uprising and declaring presidents have immunity from the law. To say nothing of gerrymandering and effectively disposing of voting rights earned at such a great cost by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others over sixty years ago. To be
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See Matthew Fox, “’Sermon’ Thirty-Six: Everyone and Aristocrat, Everyone a Royal Person,” in Fox, Passion For Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart, pp. 510-530.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society.
And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice.
See also https://www.commondreams.org/news/post-debate-poll-72-of-voters-think-biden-does-not-have-cognitive-health-to-be-president
Banner Image: An edited screenshot from the Twitch parody account,
TrumpOrBiden2024, by MrMemer33. Wikimedia Commons. |
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Queries for Contemplation |
Do you agree that it is right for President Biden to step aside in favor of a younger generation to lead? Why or why not? How will you assist in that new effort to breathe life into a teetering democracy? |
Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart
Matthew Fox’s comprehensive translation of Meister Eckhart’s sermons is a meeting of true prophets across centuries, resulting in
a spirituality for the new millennium. The holiness of creation, the divine life in each person and the divine power of our creativity, our call to do justice and practice compassion–these are among Eckhart’s themes, brilliantly interpreted and explained for today’s reader.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil
that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly
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A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the
meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate activity.
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In the Beginning There Was Joy: A Cosmic Celebration for Kids of All Ages
The first book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series tells the story of the big bang and how humans fit into the awesome, fantastical,
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