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11/07/2024

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Following are a few responses to America’s election that I have received from a variety of sources in my email this morning, the Day After the Election, which is being heard around the world.

“Do not despair” | Kamala Harris comforts supporters in her concession speech. Guardian News

Help. More than ever, I’m confused and in utter disbelief. We are in 1930s Germany. It’s the stage where I’m not only afraid of Trump, but more so the supporters. Soon I’ll be constantly looking over my shoulders and fearful of everyone. Please help. Give us guidance, strength, and most especially, prayers. (Middle-aged man.) 

I’m speechless…honestly. I would love to connect soon. My grief is boundless right now, but feeling compelled to progress, because time feels like it’s running out. (29-year-old Black doctoral student.)

Senator Elizabeth Warren delivers her response to the election results on X. Click the image to view.

I’m pulverized. White privileged women voted for him. It’s the propaganda and uninformed and uncaring people. I shudder for my grandchildren and Ukraine and the planet and all I’ve fought for. Propaganda and fear and Anti-Christ indeed. 

The billionaires are running this country. (70-year-old white grandmother)

Sixty-two percent of Americans today—including Republicans—say they are “scared,” and for good reason. Fear and promises of revenge and upending the constitution and promulgating lies and misogyny and violence are in the air. America has voted—by a six million person majority—to become a fascist nation and let democracy go. Just like Germany in the 1930s.

And this has been happening for some time. Back when GW Bush was president, a friend of mine living with her husband in West Oakland was serving that community with art and school and drumming for kids and adults. The adults met one night a week and she told me one day, “Germans are coming regularly to drum with us.” I replied, “I didn’t know there was a German community in Oakland.”  

“Oh, no,” she said. “Some Germans fly in regularly from Germany.” “Why?” I asked. “Because they feel that America is becoming like Germany in the ‘30s and they are afraid and don’t know how to handle it except to come here to the inner city of Oakland and join us in our drumming circle. It is beyond words for them.”

This gave me awareness about 12 years ago that fascism was making its imprint on American politics. And now it is more than an imprint, it is a full-fledged presence with the Supreme Court on board, the presidency, the Senate, and possibly the House.  

Bulgarian lay judge Mimo-Garcia Gruev comments on the 2024 election debacle. Flickr.

And, like Germany of the 30s, plenty of corporations and business people are on board too. (Mussolini actually defined fascism as “the marriage of government and corporations” and he knew something of what he spoke.) Corporations including the media: Fox News was fined $800 million, recall, but its propaganda keeps pouring out. Fossil fuel companies fighting tirelessly for their ill-gained profits and their full pockets so they can buy congress people and lobby their self-interests ad nauseam, etc. Elon Musk and his multiple businesses. And certain religious corporations or churches as well, who choose to be silent about Evil and the incarnation of the Antichrist in history again.

A second heads-up came to me eight days ago when our circle of the Order of the Sacred Earth had their monthly meeting on zoom. One of the participants from the Midwest who had canvassed in Beloit, Wisconsin, told how citizens there told him they were afraid to put signs in their yards supporting Harris and Walz. I asked “Why?” “They might get a brick through their window,” he replied. This election was of an altogether different passion and level of hatred.

He also offered some sage advice: “We are being driven to a deeper spirituality. One that sustains us at the edge of existence.”  

To be continued.

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And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society.

And Fox, The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved.

Banner Image: Protester holding Adbusters' Corporate American Flag at Bush’s 2nd inauguration, Washington DC. Wikimedia Commons.

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Do you agree that we are being driven to a deeper spirituality in these trying times when democracy is being replaced by fascism in the US?

Recommended Reading

Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election

Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.

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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 masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science.  A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics

The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved

The Pope’s War offers a provocative look at three decades of corruption in the Catholic Church, focusing on Josef Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. The final section in the book focuses on birthing a truly catholic Christianity.
“This book should be read by everybody, not only for its ferocious courage, but also for its vision for what needs to be saved from the destructive forces that threaten authentic Christianity.” ~ Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope.
“In the gripping The Pope’s War, Matthew Fox takes an unwavering look at the layers of corruption in the Catholic Church, holding moral truth against power.”   — Jason Berry, author of Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II

The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages

The second book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series, The Return of Father Sky helps boys and girls to celebrate a new relationship with the masculine by way of Father Sky, whose return excites joy and wonder and possibility that enlarge the soul to welcome others and all creation. Written in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-like style, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book, written by world- renowned theologian Matthew Fox weaves together modern science and classic spirituality in a whimsical, entertaining format to illustrate important truths to readers aged 4 and up. With artwork curated from illustrators around the world, this book expresses the joy and wonder of all peoples and cultures, planting seeds of respect, cooperation and hope to work together for the healing of our planet.

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